Table 1. Centres’ reported estimated numbers of children with severe hepatitis or paediatric acute liver failure, European Reference Network Rare Liver survey, 1 January 2019–26 April 2022 (n = 34).
| Number of children with pALF [8] per centre | 2019 Number of centres |
2020 Number of centres |
2021 Number of centres |
2022a
Number of centres (exact number of cases) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0─2 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 11 (0) |
| 6 (1) | ||||
| 7 (2) | ||||
| 3─5 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 (3) |
| 2 (4) | ||||
| 3 (5) | ||||
| 6─10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 1 (8) |
| 11─20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
pALF: paediatric acute liver failure.
a Data cover only 3.8 months and comprises pALF and acute severe hepatitis.