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Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure
A K House1, G P Jeffrey, K A Edyvane
1Liver Transplant Service of Western Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. akhouse@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
The Medical Journal of Australia
|October 6, 2001
Abstract:
The outcome of fulminant hepatic failure without timely liver transplantation is poor. We describe a 19-year-old woman with fulminant hepatic failure due to acute hepatitis B infection who received a living donor liver transplant from her sister. The donor's recovery was uneventful, allowing hospital discharge on Day 6. Two months after transplantation the recipient developed a biliary stricture requiring surgery. One year after transplantation, her liver function was normal.