Services Offered

• 24/7 availability of a transplant coordinator, transplant physician and transplant surgeon
• Liver transplant procedures include whole organ, reduced size and split-liver grafts
• Intestine and multivisceral transplants
• Long term follow up care in conjunction with the primary care provider
• Twice weekly outpatient transplant clinic
• Joint clinic with oncology service for those children transplanted for hepatic malignancies
• Multidisciplinary and family centered approach to patient care including the utilization of social work, child life, nutrition and chaplaincy services
• Extensive patient and family education before, during and after the transplant procedure.
• Ronald McDonald House and Ronald McDonald Family Room accommodations for patient families

Commonly Treated Conditions

Liver Transplantation

All Pediatric liver related diseases including, but not limited to:

• Biliary Atresia
• Alagille's Syndrome
• Autoimmune Hepatitis
• Fulminant and Subfulminant Hepatic Failure
• Inborn Errors of Metabolism
  • Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
  • Glycogen Storage Disease (Type I and IV)
  • Primary Hyperoxalosis
  • Wilson's Disease
  • Urea Cycle Defects
  • Tyrosinemia
  • Family Homozygous hypercholesterolemia
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Cryptogenic Cirrhosis
• Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC)
• Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis
• Neonatal Hepatitis
• Hepatoblastoma
• Hepatic mass
• Hepatic trauma
• Polycystic Liver Disease
• Budd-Chiari

Intestinal Transplantation

• Short Gut Sydrome
  • Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
  • Intestinal Atresia
  • Midgut volvulus
  • Gastroschisis
  • Abdominal trauma
  • Chron's Disease
  • Surgical adhesions
  • Mesinteric vascular thrombosis
• Defective Intestinal Motility
  • Hollow visceral myopathy
  • Neuropathy
  • Total intestinal aganglionsis (Hirschsprung)
• Impaired Enterocyte Absorptive Capacity
  • Hollow visceral myopathy
  • Autoimmune enteropathy
  • Radiation enteritis
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasm
  • Gardener's Syndrome
  • Intestinal polyposis
• TPN Induced Liver Failure