St. Louis Children’s Hospital

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Pediatric Liver Center Highlights

• Second-largest in volume in the Midwest and top 10 in volume in the nation
• A caring and welcoming environment specially designed for the needs of children
• Patients seen within 48 hours or sooner, based on medical necessity
• A medical institution that is on the leading edge of biomedical research
• One of the shortest wait times for liver transplant patients, averaging 2 months
• 94% three-year post-transplant survival rate

Liver Diseases Treated

• Nationally recognized liver transplant program  Video

  Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
• Biliary Atresia
• Alagille Syndrome
• Primary Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC)
• Hepatitis 
• Sclerosing Cholangitis
• Wilson's Disease
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Tyrosinemia
• Biochemical Disorders
  • OTC Deficiency
  • Infantile Refsum's Disease 
  • Oxalosis
• Liver Failure
• Liver Cancers
  • Hepatoblastoma
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Embryonal sarcoma

Biliary Atresia Video

Surgical treatments

• Portoenterostomies (Kasai procedures for biliary atresia)
• Liver resection
• Liver Transplant
  • Whole Liver
  • Segmented/Reduced Liver
  • Split Liver
  • Living Liver Donor
  • Combined Liver and Lung Transplant

Special Services

• Second Opinion Service
• Multicenter Listing for Liver Transplantation

• To provide comprehensive evaluation, treatment and care for children with all forms of liver disease, including those with end-stage or potentially fatal liver diseases requiring life-saving liver transplantation, or other major surgical procedures such as liver resection.
  
• To maximize potential outcomes and liver transplant donor organ sources.