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Center for Childhood Liver Disease

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Children's Hospital Boston's Center for Childhood Liver Disease is a subspecialty program within the Division of Gastroenterology.

This program provides consultative services for referring pediatricians and pediatric gastroenterologists regarding infants, children, adolescents and young adults with a wide variety of hepatobiliary disorders.

Children with liver disease are referred to this program from New England, all of the United States and from around the world. This program is multidisciplinary and includes hepatology, surgery, interventional radiology, interventional GI endoscopy and pathology. Primary care physicians and family members are involved in many aspects of care, and communication is regularly provided.

The Center for Childhood Liver Disease provides comprehensive services for patients and physicians, including:

Comprehensive Services
  • Consultation, in-patient and out-patient

  • Diagnosis, using a variety of serologic, radiographic (ultrasound, CT scan, MR and MR cholangiography), histologic (biopsy), and endoscopic examinations

  • Comprehensive therapeutic plans, which may include medications, surgery, endoscopic or experimental therapy

  • Access to investigational drug therapy in clinical trials

  • Liver or multi-organ transplantation, including standard, living-donor, and segmental or split liver transplants

  • Coordination of care plans with primary care and other specialty physicians

  • Long-term follow-up care

  • Access to hospital and community resources

  • Assistance with insurance coverage and other matters relating to receiving care

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