Favorable nutritional outcome after isolated liver transplantation for liver failure in a child with short bowel syndrome

Transplantation. 1999 Feb 27;67(4):632-4. doi: 10.1097/00007890-199902270-00025.

Abstract

A patient with short gut syndrome presented with end-stage liver disease. She underwent an isolated liver transplantation at the age of 3.5 years. Parenteral nutrition was discontinued 1.5 years after surgery. At 7 years of age, the patient has maintained normal nutritional indices and growth while on a normal oral diet. This observation suggests that liver transplantation alone can be a valuable alternative to the combined small bowel/liver transplantation in short bowel syndrome when intestinal adaptation is expected and if the ileocecal valve is present and that improvement of gut function can occur after successful liver transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver Failure / surgery*
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
  • Short Bowel Syndrome / complications*