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Pediatric Liver Disease. Alyssa Brzenski. Pediatric Liver Disease. Keely DA, Hartley. End Stage Liver Disease. Chronic Liver Disease. Acute Liver Disease. Biliary Atresia. Biliary Atresia. The Lancet. . The Statistics. Most common in southeast Asia 1: 15,000 born in the US
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Pediatric Liver Disease Alyssa Brzenski
Pediatric Liver Disease Keely DA, Hartley. End Stage Liver Disease.
Biliary Atresia Biliary Atresia. The Lancet.
The Statistics • Most common in southeast Asia • 1: 15,000 born in the US • 2.5 times more common in africanamerican mothers • Most common cause of pediatric liver transplant • 10-20% associated with congenital anomalies • Biliary atresia splenic malformation • Polysplenia (90%) • Situsinvertus (50%) • Vascular anomalies (70%) • Intestinal malrotation (60%) • Cardiac anomalies- VSD, ASD, HLHS (50%)
Presentation Jaundice Pale Stools Dark Urine Failure to Thrive Coagulopathy
Anesthesia for a Kasai Routine Monitors +/- A-line 2 PIV Balanced Anesthetic +/- Epidural
Prognosis Previously unpublished data, based on UK Biliary Atresia Registry (1999–2008).93 BASM=biliary atresia splenic malformation syndrome.
Statistics • 16,414- currently on the Liver Transplant waitlist (as of March 9, 2013) • 475 of which are children • 3 children listed at Radys • In 2011, there were 536 pediatric recipients in US • Within 2 years of being listed for a liver transplant, 20-30% of patients had not been transplanted
LI 8.2 Distribution of pediatric patients waiting for a liver transplant
LI 8.7 Pre-transplant mortality rates among pediatric patients wait-listed for a liver transplant, by age
LI 8.12 Use of DCD donors in pediatric liver transplant recipients
LI 8.18 Survival among pediatric liver transplant recipients, 2002–2006, by age
Anesthesia Considerations • Full stomach- RSI • Large bore Upper extremity IV access • 1 central line • Large bore PIV • Arterial Line
Surgical Stages Yudkowitz FS, Chietero M. Anesthesia Issues in Pediatric Liver Transplants. Pediatric Transplant. 2005; 9; 666-72.
Hepatic Artery Thrombosis Hematocrit less than 30 Attempt to avoid platelet transfusion Avoid hypercoagulable state Dextran used by some centers
Sources Hartley JL, Davenport M, Kelly DA. Biliary Atresia. Lancet 2009; 374:1704-13. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. 2011 Liver OPTN/SRTR annual report. http://www.ustransplant.org/ Hendrickson R et al. Pediatric Liver transplantation. Current OpinPediatr 2004; 16: 309-13. Hartley J and Kelly D. End stage liver failure. Paediatrics and Child Health 2009; 20: 30-5.