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. 2020 Apr;8(8):566. doi: 10.21037/atm.2020.02.164

Table 1. Indications of cell therapy for liver diseases.

Inborn metabolic disorders
❖ Criggler-Najjar syndrome type 1 (66,67)
❖ Urea cycle defects (67-71)
   ⬥ Ornithine transcarbamylase
   ⬥ Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase type 1 deficiency
   ⬥ Citrullinemia
❖ Argininosuccinatelyase deficiency
❖ Glycogen storage disease type I (67,72-75)
   ⬥ Type Ia
   ⬥ Type Ib
❖ Refsum disease (76)
❖ Phenylketonuria (64,75)
❖ Tyrosinemia type 1 (67)
❖ Factor VII deficiency (77,78)
❖ Primary hyperoxaluria (79)
❖ Familial hypercholesterolaemia (80,81)
❖ Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (78,82)
Other liver diseases
❖ Patients with indication of LT (83-89)
   ⬥ Acute liver failure
   ⬥ Acute on chronic liver failure
   ⬥ Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
❖ Patients with no indication of LT (90-92)
   ⬥ Patients with postoperative liver failure after partial hepatic resection
   ⬥ Patients with chronic decompensation of an end-stage liver disease
   ⬥ Other patients with no indication of LT (i.e., advanced age, alcoholism)