An ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplant in an infant with acute liver failure in the Sri Lankan setting
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Published:2023-11-16
Issue:1
Volume:68
Page:25-28
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ISSN:2386-1274
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Container-title:Ceylon Medical Journal
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Short-container-title:Ceylon Med. J.
Author:
Fernando Meranthi,Tillakaratne Suchintha,Gunetilleke Bhagya,Liyanage Chamila,Appuhamy Chinthaka,Weerasuriya Aruna,Dissanayake Janaki,Siriwardana Rohan
Abstract
Liver transplant (LT) is the standard therapy for medically refractory acute liver failure (ALF). Finding a deceaseddonor graft in an emergency is challenging and often overcome by living-donation. Blood group matching is practised for LT though ABO-incompatible liver transplant (ABOi-LT) is performed inselected circumstances. We report an infant who underwent successful ABOincompatible living donor LT for ALF of unknown aetiology. This being the country’s first ABOi-LT, the youngest LT recipient to date and the youngest receiving emergency LT for ALF; we describe the novel experience at a resource-limited setting in Sri Lanka (SL).
Publisher
Sri Lanka Journals Online