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Liver Transplant Program

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The Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at Children's Hospital Boston evaluates children who are potential candidates for transplantation, and manages the care of children who have received transplanted livers. A liver transplant is an operation performed to replace a diseased liver with a healthy one from another person.

Since the program's inception in 1984, Children's has performed more than 165 liver transplants and offers expertise in deceased whole organ transplants, reduced-size liver transplants, split liver transplants and related living donor transplants.

Expert Team
Pediatric liver transplantation at Children's is an interdisciplinary effort between the medical and surgical programs. The program is currently led by Maureen Jonas, MD, who directs the medical team, and Heung Bae Kim, MD, who directs the surgical team.

The program is staffed by a team of specialists that includes four transplant surgeons, a transplant hepatologist, a liver transplant coordinator, social workers, psychiatrists, dieticians, as well as an experienced nursing staff with expertise in day-to-day transplant patient care.

What's New
Image Videos: What to Expect
Prepare for your liver transplant procedure by viewing our "What to Expect" video series.
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Related topics:
Biliary Atresia
Biliary Reconstruction
Liver Failure
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Patient's Story
A true gift of love this Valentine's Day
For the family of one-year-old Caitlin Downey, this Valentine's Day is about more than hearts. It's about the liver Caitlin received from a deceased donor. Read more and watch a video of Caitlin courtesy of the Patriot Ledger newspaper, or check out this slide show from WCVB Channel 5.
Outcomes
Click here to download outcome data from our Pediatric Liver, Intestine and Multivisceral Transplantation Center
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