20-year survival expected for 4 out of 5 children who receive liver transplants

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/eaft-2se040816.php

Public Release: 14-Apr-2016
20-year survival expected for 4 out of 5 children who receive liver transplants
Liver transplantation has become a common treatment of liver disease over the past 30 years; however long-term patient outcome data has been scarce
European Association for the Study of the Liver

A new study presented today shows that 20-year survival after childhood liver transplantation can be expected for almost 80% of patients. The study, presented at The International Liver CongressTM 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, shares long-term outcome data from medical records of children who received liver transplants over a five-year period, with a mean follow-up of 22 years.

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