Pediatric hepatology. A half-century of progress.

摘要: Treating a pediatric patient offers unique opportunity to develop effective strategies prevent progressive liver injury and novel therapeutic regimens reduce the need for OLT. Universal vaccination against hepatitis viruses will cirrhosis cancer. Education counseling may incidence of alcoholic disease. Precise early screening metabolic disease genetic or targeted therapy progression. A retrospective look at 1983 National Institutes Health Consensus Conference on Liver Transplantation, after more than 15 years experience among many centers, indicates that transplantation can be effectively used childhood Projections 10 into future offer hope not needed in treatment certain diseases such as fulminant hepatic failure. Focusing prevention life, thoughtful medical management, precise decision making, conscientious, creative, courageous use nontransplant options, save both livers lives.