Background: The assessment of cell-mediated immune responses through the measurement
of intracellular adenosine-tri-phosphate (iATP) production (Cylex ImmuKnow) as a …

The first out of the five initial patients to undergo liver transplantation was a child suffering
from extrahepatic biliary atresia. This child was treated by Starzl in 1963 [1]. He died as the …

Criggle 20000322 Page 1 Crigler-Najjar Syndrome type I is a rare congenital disease with
high mortality and morbidity rates due to brain complications. It has been treated by life-long …

The liver transplantation program at KFSHRC has been active since 2001. More than 450
liver transplants have been performed so far. The program evolved from adult cadaveric …

Several hundred publications in the years 2007 and 2008 elucidate the ongoing progress in
pediatric liver transplantation. Compared with previous reviews (2005–2006 and 2006–…

Introduction: Living- related liver transplantation (LRLT) for paediatric recipients was
developed 10 years ago to overcome the high mortality on the waiting list. Since then, liver …

In the late 1960s there was a remarkably sad experience in adult and paediatric hepatology.
In acute and chronic end-stage liver disease medical treatment was just palliation without …

* PURPOSE:-To evaluate our recently established Organ Transplant Center experience in
Pediatric Liver Transplantation and compare our results to internationally published figures. * …

Background & Aims: We have specified the features of progressive familial intrahepatic
cholestasis type 3 and investigated in 31 patients whether a defect of the multidrug resistance 3 …

Class III multidrug resistance (MDR) P-glycoproteins (P-gp), mdr2 in mice and MDR3 in man,
mediate the translocation of phosphatidylcholine across the canalicular membrane of the …