Abstract
The best outcome for pediatric liver transplant recipients require effective interdisciplinary teams with diverse competencies who work in a coordinated fashion toward common goals including to (i) define the best possible outcome for pediatric LT recipients and (ii) identify and close gaps in current care processes requiring acquisition of strategies and application of new discoveries which would ultimately improve the care delivery system. Focused action plan items were developed for patient selection and peri-transplant risk; cardiac, renal, and infectious disease evaluation; allocation, donor selection and organ procurement; graft rescue; and long-term graft maintenance and adherence.
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Ng, V.L., Bucuvalas, J.C. (2017). In Pursuit of the “Ideal” Outcome After Pediatric Liver Transplantation. In: Dunn, S., Horslen, S. (eds) Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children. Organ and Tissue Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08049-9_7-1
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