Reply to Letter to the Editor

We appreciate the letter from Dr. Davenport and Dr. Macdonald from Kings College Hospital regarding our single center 26-year experience and long-term outcomes for patients who underwent HPE for biliary atresia. The aim of our study was to determine perioperative risk factors associated with progression to liver transplantation following HPE [1]. Our results, similar to those of Shneider et.al [2], showed total bilirubin at 3  months following HPE was the strongest predictor of need for transplantation.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research