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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Transplant. 2016 Jun 21;20(6):756–769. doi: 10.1111/petr.12741

Table 1.

Metabolic disorders that are treatable with liver transplantation

Disorders that can be cured by LT Organs/systems to be monitored after LT

Tyrosinemia type I Kidney

Wilson disease CNS**

Alpha 1 antitripsin deficiency Lung

Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) Kidney

Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) CNS**

Urea cycle disorders (UCD) CNS**
    Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTC)
    Citrullinemia
    Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I deficiency (CPSI)
    Argininosuccinate lyase deficiency
    Argininemia

Glycogen storage disease (GSD)
    Type Ia, Ib, III and IV
Kidney, Blood/Bone marrow (type Ib), GI tract (type Ib)

Crigler-Najjar syndrome CNS**

Primary hyperoxaluria Kidney

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) Liver, GI tract

Disorders with continuous significant metabolic derangement after LT*

Familial hypercholesterolemia Heart

Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) Liver

Organic acidemia CNS**, Kidney, Heart
        Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA)
        Propionic acidemia (PA)

Mitochondrial disorders CNS**, Kidney, Heart
*

General consideration of the requirement of post LT metabolic management by IEM specialists. Metabolic outcome of each patient varies and specific management plans including monitoring of metabolites and the frequency of follow up are at each IEM provider's discretion.

CNS: central nervous system

**

For patients who had neurological symptoms before transplant.