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- Title
Severe late acute allograft rejection in a child after living-related auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
- Authors
Komatsu, H; Inui, A; Fujisawa, T; Sogo, T; Miyagawa, Y; Inui, M; Uemoto, S; Inomata, Y; Tanaka, K
- Abstract
Auxiliary liver transplantation (ALT) is known to correct liver-based metabolic disorders. However, it remains unclear whether the presence of a native liver influences the long-term prognosis of ALT for metabolic diseases. We reported on a 4-yr-old girl who had undergone living-related auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation (APOLT) for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency and experienced severe late acute rejection 18 months after liver transplantation, during weaning of immunosuppressive agents. Results of histological analysis of the graft indicated very severe acute rejection (rejection activity index, 9/9), and computed tomography revealed graft liver atrophy. These observations suggest the possibility that severe rejection might occur in APOLT, especially during weaning of immunosuppression.
- Subjects
LIVER transplantation; METABOLIC disorders; HOMOGRAFTS; JUVENILE diseases
- Publication
Clinical Transplantation, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 4, p300
- ISSN
0902-0063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1399-0012.1999.130404.x