indications
Last reviewed 01/2018
Possible indications in children include:
- bilary atresia where corrective surgery has been delayed beyond 2-3 months, or where surgery has been unsuccessful
- Wilson's disease
- tyrosinaemia
- glycogen storage disease
- alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- primary hepatic malignancy
- in the treatment of Crigler-Najjar
Possible indications in an adult include:
- fulminant or subacute liver failure:
- paracetamol poisoning
- viral hepatitis
- end-stage liver cirrhosis:
- alcoholic liver disease
- chronic active hepatitis
- primary biliary cirrhosis
- primary hepatic malignancy
need for liver transplantation in liver failure
liver transplantation in chronic hepatitis B infection