Open AccessPaediatric liver transplantation in Johannesburg revisited: 59 transplants and challenges met
Author(s) -
Jerome Loveland,
Russell Britz,
Craig Joseph,
Anna Sparaco,
M Zuckerman,
Alan Norman Langnas,
G. Schleicher,
Bernd Ströbele,
Porai Moshesh,
Jean F. Botha
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
samj. south african medical journal/south african medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 2078-5135
pISSN - 0256-9574
DOI - 10.7196/samj.8627
Subject(s) - medicine , economic shortage , liver transplantation , cohort , transplantation , surgery , waiting list , pediatrics , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
A paediatric liver transplant programme was started at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), in November 2005. We reported on the first 29 patients in 2012. Since then we have performed a further 30 transplants in 28 patients, having met the major challenge of donor shortage by introducing a living related donor programme and increasing the use of split liver grafts.