Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Transplant. Jun 18, 2025; 15(2): 98616
Published online Jun 18, 2025. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v15.i2.98616
Ten years of a pediatric living donor liver transplantation program in Brazil
Marco Aurélio Farina Junior, Melina Utz-Melere, Carolina Soares da Silva, Luiza Salgado Nader, Cristine Suzana Trein, Angelica Maria Lucchese, Mayara Machry, Rodrigo Mariano, Cristina Targa Ferreira, Antônio Nocchi Kalil, Flávia Heinz Feier
Marco Aurélio Farina Junior, Melina Utz-Melere, Carolina Soares da Silva, Luiza Salgado Nader, Cristine Suzana Trein, Cristina Targa Ferreira, Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90050-170, Brazil
Angelica Maria Lucchese, Mayara Machry, Rodrigo Mariano, Antônio Nocchi Kalil, Flávia Heinz Feier, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90020-090, Brazil
Antônio Nocchi Kalil, Department of Surgical Oncology, Santa Rita Hospital/Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90050-170, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Author contributions: Farina Junior MA, Utz-Melere M, and Feier FH, designed the research study and wrote the manuscript; Nader LS, Machry M, da Silva CS, Mariano R, and Lucchese AM collected and evaluated the data; Ferreira CT and Kalil AN wrote the manuscript and critically evaluated the final version; All authors have read and approve the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre Complex (ISCMPA) (approval number 22289419800005335).
Informed consent statement: Upon signing the informed consent form for liver transplantation, the patients also provided signed authorization for sample collection.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: The original anonymous dataset is available on request from the corresponding author at flavia.feier@gmail.com.
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Corresponding author: Flávia Heinz Feier, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Rua Prof Annes Dias, Porto Alegre 90020-090, Brazil. flavia.feier@gmail.com
Received: July 1, 2024
Revised: November 15, 2024
Accepted: December 11, 2024
Published online: June 18, 2025
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Core Tip

Core Tip: We present findings related to the implementation of a pediatric living-donor liver transplant center in Brazil, reporting the results of the first 10 years of this program. Complication rates and post-transplant survival are comparable to those obtained at high-volume centers worldwide.