Intellectual and visuo-spatial assessment in long-term pediatric liver transplantation for biliary atresia.

摘要

Biliary atresia affects children in the first few months after birth. Therefore, the need for liver transplantation (LT) is early. Studies examining the cognitive and neuropsychological outcomes of patients who underwent LT identified deficits in global intellectual assessment (I), language performance (2), attention, and memory (3). In contrast, visuo-motor tests were normal after the LT (4). In these studies, a variety of pretransplant diagnoses and ages at transplantation were included.