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Published on: May 7, 2015
Reversal of nail changes after liver transplantation in a child
Vidhyachandra Gandhi1, Aabha Nagral, Sujith Philip
1Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai 400 026, India.
Abstract:
We report a 6-year-old girl who received a left-lobe live-related liver transplant for decompensated liver disease after a failed Kasai's surgery for biliary atresia. Preoperatively, her nails were white, dystrophic, brittle with severe onycholysis, clubbing and watch-glass deformities. Nail scrapings were negative for fungus. Five months after transplantation, her nails had become near normal. There is only one such documented case in literature on reversal of nail changes in an adult.
