What Are the Primary Diagnoses for Patients Receiving Liver Transplants?
The primary diagnoses for patients receiving liver transplants at the Liver Care Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are:
| Diagnosis | % of Overall Liver Transplant Volume |
Cholestatic (Alagille Syndrome, Biliary Atresia, Idiopathic Cholestasis, Primary Schlerosing Cholangitis, TPN Induced) | 51% |
Metabolic (Antitrypsin Deficiency, Citrulinemia, Glycogen Storage Disease, Neonatal Hemachromatosis, OTC deficiency, Primary Hyper Oxaluria, Tyrosinemia, Urea Cycle Defects, Wilson's Disease) | 17% |
Acute Liver Failure (Viral infection, drug toxicity, autoimmune disorders, indeterminate) | 15% |
Cirrhosis (Autoimmune Hepatitis, Cryptogenic Cirrhosis, Neonatal Hepatitis) | 8% |
Tumor (Hepatoblastoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Hemangioendothelioma) | 4% |
Other (Short Gut, Budd-Chiari Syndrome, Abernathy's Syndrome and other diseases that don't fall in any of the above categories) | 5% |
Data source: Liver Care Center Team, Cincinnati Children's, March 2005
