Liver Transplant - Pediatric

At Mount Sinai Medical Center, we have a world renowned Pediatric Liver/Liver Transplant Program. Our Program is one of the busiest and most successful programs around the globe. Since our Program opened in 1988, we have performed over 400 pediatric liver transplants including cadaveric, living related and split liver transplants. We also offer and have performed numerous combined transplants including liver/kidney, liver/intestine and liver/bone marrow transplants. In addition to our Transplant Program, we also have a vital and active Hepatobiliary Surgery Program.

Our surgeons and pediatric hepatologists are well recognized for their clinical expertise and research activities. As a result, our center is involved in numerous NIH funded research studies. Mount Sinai is one of ten sites in the Biliary Atresia Consortium and Cholestatic Liver Disease Consortium (CLIC), both of which are funded by the National Institutes of Health. We are also involved in investigator/pharmaceutical-initiated studies for the treatment of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in children, and treatment of Autoimmune Hepatitis in the pediatric population. Our strong clinical experience and cutting edge research allows us to provide outstanding outcomes and be one of the leading pediatric liver transplant programs in the world.

Chiyan Alejandra received a living kidney transplant, January 15, 2002, and a liver transplant two weeks later.

Program Highlights

• Youngest transplant recipient: 16 days old
• Experienced Living Related Donor Program:
  -   First pediatric living related liver transplantation in New York State
  -   Available option for both end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure
  -   Living related liver/kidney transplant from the same donor
• Skilled split liver program which allows two recipients to be transplanted from one donor
• 16 combined liver/kidney transplants
• First pediatric combined liver-intestine transplantation in New York State
• State of the art liver transplant techniques including:
  -   Domino liver transplantation: This procedure allows a single liver to be used for three patients. This transplant procedure was featured in New York Magazine's "Top Ten Medical Miracles"
  -   Auxiliary Partial Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (APOLT): This procedure is performed in rare cases where the patient keeps part of his/her native liver and receives part of a cadaveric liver. In the event the native liver recovers and regenerates, the auxiliary liver graft can be removed, allowing the child to stop immunosuppression.

Liver Pediatric Transplant Team