20‐ to 25‐year patient and graft survival following a single pediatric liver transplant—Analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing database: Where to go from here

• Published in: Pediatric transplantation Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. e13523 - n/a
• Main Authors: Ekong, Udeme D., Gupta, Nitika A., Urban, Read, Andrews, Walter S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Denmark Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2019
• Subjects: adolescents; Age; Children; chronic rejection; Graft rejection; Liver transplantation; Liver transplants; long‐term results; pediatric liver transplantation; Pediatrics; Survival; Teenagers; chronic rejection; pediatric liver transplantation; adolescents; long-term results

To understand factors contributing to liver graft loss and patient death, we queried a national database designed to follow pediatric patients transplanted between 1987 and 1995 till adulthood. A comparison was made to a cohort transplanted between 2000 and 2014. The 5‐, 10‐, 15‐, 20‐, and 25‐year p...