The Ochsner Hospital for Children Pediatric Liver Transplant program is the largest and most comprehensive pediatric liver transplant program in the state of Louisiana. We offer a full range of liver transplant options, including split and reduced livers, as well as living donor liver transplants. Ochsner has performed more than 2,000 liver transplants, making Ochsner the most experienced liver transplant center in the Gulf South and giving patients and their families confidence in our expertise.
The Pediatric Liver Transplant team includes:
- Dedicated transplant surgeons
- Dedicated pediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologist
- Pediatric pharmacist
- Social worker
- Dietitian
- Nurse coordinator
- Child life specialist
- Psychologist
- Intensivist
- Hospitalist
Conditions which may lead to liver transplantation in children and adolescents:
- Biliary atresia
- Metabolic conditions (e.g. proprionic acidemia, ornithine transcobamylase deficiency, maple syrup urine disease, glycogen storage disease, tyrosinemia, etc)
- Cirrhosis
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Wilson disease
- Portal hypertension
- Alagille syndrome
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Acute liver failure
- Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
- Hepatoblastoma
- Hepatocellular carcinoma