In previous decades, pediatric liver transplantation has become a state-of-the-art operation with excellent success and limited mortality.

Graft and patient survival have continued to improve as a result of improvements in medical, surgical and anesthetic management, organ availability, immunosuppression, and identification and treatment of postoperative complications.
The utilization of split-liver grafts and living-related donors has provided more organs for pediatric patients.
Newer immunosuppression regimens, including induction therapy, have had a significant impact on graft and patient survival.
Future developments of pediatric liver transplantation will deal with long-term follow-up, with prevention of immunosuppression-related complications and promotion of as normal growth as possible. This review describes the state-of-the-art in pediatric liver transplantation.
(Source: Pubmed.gov)