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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 1982 May;100(5):681–686. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(82)80564-7

Table I.

Features of eight patients treated with orthotopic liver transplantation using cyclosporin A (CyA) and low doses of steroids

Patient	Age (yr)/sex	Diagnosis	Transplantation date	Major complications	Initial biliary construction	Bilirubin (mg)	Present daily drug doses
Patient	Age (yr)/sex	Diagnosis	Transplantation date	Major complications	Initial biliary construction	Bilirubin (mg)	CyA (mg/kg)	Prednisone(mg)
1	16/F	Budd-Chiari syndrome	8-23-80	Cholangitis from retained stent	Duel to duct^*	6	10	10^†
2	8/F	Byler disease	9-16-80	Hepatic artery thrombosis	Duct to duct	Died 19 days	—	—
3	10/F	Intrahepatic biliary atresia	9-28-80	Disrupted biliary anastomosis	Duct to duct^*	< 1	7.2	10
4^‡	23/4/M	Biliary atresia	5-9-81	None	Duct to Roux limb	< 1	9	5
5^‡	4/F	Biliary atresia	5-29-81	Respiratory distress syndrome; biliary obstruction	Gallbladder to Roux limb^*	< 1	5.5	5
6^‡	2 1/6/M	Biliary atresia	6-3-81 6-24-81	Liver abscess; Candida peritonitis	Gall bladder to Roux limb^*; Duct to Roux limb	< 1	9.3	5
7	10½/M	Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency	6-12-81	None	Duct to duct	< 1	8	3.5
8	10 1/6/F	Congenital biliary cirrhosis	7-4-81	None	Duct to duct	< 1	9.3	5

^*

Required secondary revision.

^†

Plus intermittent hydrocortisone boluses.

^‡

Previous Kasai procedure(s).