Intellectual development of patients with biliary atresia who underwent living donor liver transplantation in infancy.
Seiichi KawabataRieko SakamotoKeiichi UtoTomoaki IrieMasashi KadohisaKeita ShimataYasuko NaritaKaori IsonoMasaki HondaShintaro HayashidaYuki OhyaHidekazu YamamotoHirotoshi YamamotoMiwako NakanoYasuhiko SugawaraYukihiro InomataTaizo HibiPublished in: Pediatric surgery international (2021)
This is the first study to indicate that the mean full scale intelligence quotient among school-aged patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation for biliary atresia in infancy is significantly lower than that of the general population.