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Paediatric liver transplantation in Johannesburg revisited: 59 transplants and challenges met

Author(s) -

Jerome Loveland,

Russell Britz,

Craig Joseph,

Anna Sparaco,

M Zuckerman,

Alan N. Langnas,

G. Schleicher,

Bernd Ströbele,

Porai Moshesh,

Jean Botha

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

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.

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