Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1988 Mar;17(1):167-75

Liver transplantation for metabolic disease of the liver

Esquivel CO, Marino IR, Fioravanti V, Van Thiel DH
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh.

Abstract
Hepatic transplantation for metabolic or genetic diseases of the liver produces
a definite cure of the liver disease and also effectively cures the underlying
metabolic abnormalities of the genetic disease in question. Liver
transplantation is highly likely to become the current treatment of choice for a
wide variety of metabolic disorders based predominantly in the liver. This is
true not only for those that produce grossly evident hepatic disease with
cirrhosis, but also for those that are free of obvious hepatocellular injury but
are based either predominantly or exclusively within the liver