%0 Journal Article %T Trasplante hep¨¢tico en ni£¿os %A Varela-Fascinetto %A Gustavo %A D¨¢vila-P¨¦rez %A Roberto %A Hern¨¢ndez-Plata %A Alejandro %A Casta£¿eda-Mart¨ªnez %A Pedro %A Fuentes-Garc¨ªa %A V¨ªctor %A Nieto-Zerme£¿o %A Jaime %J Revista de investigaci¨®n cl¨ªnica %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X pediatric liver transplantation has evolved over the last two decades into an effective and widely accepted therapy for infants and children. currently, these high-risk patients achieve 85 to 90% one-year patient survival and an excellent quality of life. this paper reviews the special features of the pediatric recipient, the surgical innovations developed to be able to offer them a transplant (reduced size, live donor, split, and auxiliary partial transplantation), the most significant issues in anesthetic, immunosuppressive and postoperative care in children, as well as a global picture of the results. additionally, the experience of the hospital infantil de m¨¦xico federico g¨®mez is presented, as the largest and most successful series of pediatric liver transplantation in the country, where the first successful live donor liver transplantation and the first simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation in a child were performed. %K liver transplantation %K pediatric %K mexico %K trasplante hep¨¢tico %K pedi¨¢trico %K m¨¦xico. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-83762005000200022&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en