Liver transplantation for polycystic liver disease
T. E. Starzl, J. Reyes, A. Tzakis, L. Mieles, S. Todo and R. Gordon
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh (Pa) School of Medicine.
Four female patients with severe complications of polycystic liver disease
were treated with liver replacement; two patients were also given kidneys
from their liver donors. All four of the patients were suffering from
extreme fatigue. Three of the recipients have survived for 8, 11, and 60
months with normal liver function and present good health. The fourth
patient recovered from a liver-kidney transplantation, but 5 months later,
fulminant hepatic failure developed in this patient due to hepatitis B
virus, and she died despite emergency hepatic retransplantation.
