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Liver transplantation as definitive treatment for a factor V Leiden mutation.

Dunn SP, Tsai A, Griffin G, Toth S, Casas-Melley AT, Falkenstein KP, Marando CA, Krueger LJ

Division of Solid Organ Transplantation, Nemours Biomedical Research, Nemours Children's Clinic-Wilmington, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Delaware, USA.

Liver transplantation (LT) was achieved for factor V Leiden-induced thrombophilia in a neonate with hepatic veno-occlusive disease. Initial LT was performed with a liver segment removed from a child with primary oxalosis. Four months later, a second, definitive LT was performed. The child remains well without recurrent thrombosis.

Published 9 March 2005 in J Pediatr, 146(3): 418-22.
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