Growing old gracefully: caring for the 90-year-old liver in the 40-year-old transplant recipient.

摘要

One of the great joys of caring for children is the prospect of seeing someone achieve goals in their ,life that would otherwise not have been possible even a few short years ago. This is seen on a daily basis in pediatric hepatology, mostly in liver transplant recipients. Whereas during the very early years, transplantation was viewed as experimental and even sometimes as a last-ditch attempt, nowadays it has wonderfully evolved to be a routine component of top-level care around the world. Along with this high surgical bar has come evidence of quite good long term outcomes.