Samar H. Ibrahim, M.B. , Ch.B., pediatric gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic, gives an overview of the pediatric liver transplant program at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota. The program offers both in- and outpatient clinic settings where Mayo experts specialize in treating pediatric patients with acute liver failure, chronic liver diseases, metabolic and genetic diseases of the liver, and liver cancers. As part of the nation's largest transplant center, the pediatric liver transplant team can partner with multidisciplinary team members, creating an environment of collaboration and resources to achieve strong outcomes for patients.
mm. Hello everybody. My name is Summer Ibrahim and one of the pediatric transplant. Hepatology ist at Mill Clinic. And today I'll be giving you an overview about the pediatric liver transplant program at Mayo Clinic. First I would like to introduce our team. The transplant surgeons are dr demotion tanner with the surgical director. Dr Charles Rosen and dr Julianne Hamburg. The transplant. Him pathologists include me. Some are Ibrahim and the medical director and Dr Sarah Hassan. In addition we can manage our patient with the transplant infectious disease. Doctor Theresa Americans Jody Whitworth is our transplant physician assistant. She plays an integral role in the follow up of our transplant candidate and recipient in the inpatient service. And uh Callie Lovejoy is our transplant coordinator. She coordinates the care of our patient through all steps of the transplant process we have at Male Clinic a multidisciplinary transplant team. This includes the transplant pharmacists to transplant social workers and the transplant dietitian here at Mayo Clinic. We have an integrated outpatient practice between pediatric hepatology and pediatric liver transplant. This enables us to re avoid the need of liver transplantation in our patient with chronic liver disease on regular basis and optimize the timing of liver transplant, revelation, listing and eventually transplantation. We consult on hospitalized pediatric patients with acute and chronic liver diseases on the in patient service at ST mary Hospital. We can manage this patient with our colleagues in pediatric intensive care and conduct timely liver transplant evaluation and when appropriate listing for patient with acute liver failure or with chronic liver disease and recently con sensation. We are part of the William von Liebig Center for transplantation and clinical Regeneration. So we have a well developed infrastructure to enhance the care of our pediatric liver transplant candidates and recipient. This includes our capacity to perform minimally invasive procedure um like interventional radiology based procedure or complex endoscopy based procedure. This procedure are often an integral part of the care of both liver transplant candidates and recipients. We have a wide patient with habitable renew pledge A for liver transplantation and this includes the common pediatric liver tumors such as hip Patroclus, Thelma unhappy cellular carcinoma. In addition to the rare one, like Kalenjin carcinoma, we strive to optimize the outcome of this patient and our patients are cared by a multidisciplinary team of specialists which included in addition to the transplant him, pathologist and the transplant surgeons. Um the pediatric oncologist, the pediatric quotation oncologist, pediatric radiology, pediatric A pathology. Among other team members. We provide well coordinated care with the genetic and metabolic specialist for our patients with metabolic and genetic liver diseases who require liver transplantation. And this care is through every step of the process. We have transplanted and care for a large population of patients with metabolic and genetic diseases. And here I have a list of some of these um conditions including black carbon storage disease. You're a cycle. The fact congenital disorder of like oscillation, taras, anemia, Crigler Najjar syndrome, allergy syndrome and the broad category of progressive familiar and try a political stasis. In addition we have a combined liver and kidney transplant program We call manage this patient with the transplant nephrologist. Most of this patient have a combined transplant for kidney and liver merely for hydroxyurea or polycystic kidney disease with a liver involvement. We have a well developed living donor liver transplant program. And we reassessed regularly living donation as a viable option for a time the transplant based on the equity of the liver transplant candidate and their property on the transplant list. At the end, I would like to leave you with some information about how to connect with us either by phone or but the web. And thank you for your attention
