European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie
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One of the key problems facing children awaiting liver transplantation is the shortage of donor organs. Surgical procedures that address this problem include: reduced-size liver transplantation (RLT), split liver transplantation (SLT), and living related liver transplantation (LRLT). RLT makes more of the current donor pool accessible to the pediatric recipient. ⋯ Overall patient survival after primary full-size OLT was 71.8%. Reduced-size OLT (RLT, SLT, and LRLT) resulted in an overall patient survival of 72.6% after primary transplantation. Patient survivals for primary transplants with specific types of reduced-size grafts were: RLT 76.5% (after RLT was used routinely), SLT 66.7%, and LRLT 89.5%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)