Indication for liver transplantation in children	
Disease that evolve to hepatic failure	
Biliary atresia	
	Growth failure of a 10 month-old boy with biliary atresia	$	
	Liver histology in biliary atresia	$	
Progressive intrahepatic cholestasis	
	Liver histology in Byler’s disease at an early stage	$	
Primary sclerosing cholangitis	
	Liver histology in sclerosing cholangitis	$	
Fulminant hepatic failure	
	Liver histology in fulminant hepatic failure of unknown origin	$	
Chronic active hepatitis or post necrotic cirrhosis	
	Liver histology in cryptogenic cirrhosis	$	
	Liver histology in chronic hepatitis B-related cirrhosis	$	
Nutrition-related hepatic failure	
	Liver histology inshort bowel syndrome and TPN-related liver failure	$	
Cholestatic liver disease	
Caroli disease	
	Liver histology in Caroli’s disease and rabdomyosarcoma	$	
Nonprogressive liver diseases	
Arteriohepatic dysplasia	
	Patient affected by Alagille’s syndrome showing multiple xanthomas	$	
	Liver histology in Alagille’s syndrome	$	
Liver-based metabolic diseases	
Urea cycle defects	
	Liver histology inornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency	$	
Glycogen storage diseases	
	Liver histology in type IV glycogenosis evolved to cirrhosis	$	
Crigler-Najjar syndrome	
	Liver histology in Crigler-Najjar syndrome	$	
Neonatal iron storage diseases	
	Liver histology in perinatal hematochromatosis	$	
Hepatic malignancies	
Hepatoblastoma	
	Native liver of a patient transplanted for hepatoblastoma	$	
	Liver histology in epithelial type hepatoblastoma: embryonal and fetal patterns	$	
	Liver histology in epithelial type hepatoblastoma: macrotrabecular pattern	$	
	Post-transplant recurrence of hepatoblastoma at CT scan	$	
Hepatocellular carcinoma	
	Native liver of a patient with biliary cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma	$	
	Liver histology in hepatocellular carcinoma	$	
Other primitive tumors	
	Type II hemangioendothelioma: MR scan and total body plain radiogram	$	
	Native liver of a patient with hepatic hemangioendothelioma	$	
	Liver histology inhepatic hemangioendothelioma	$	
	Liver histology inhepatic hemangiosarcoma	$	
	Liver histology in Caroli’s disease and rabdomyosarcoma	$	
Pediatric liver transplantation at the Ospedali Riuniti of Bergamo	
	Pediatric liver transplants performed in Italy between 1998 and 1999	$	
	Italian regions served by Nord Italia Transplant	$	
	Age distribution of the pediatric liver transplant recipients in the Bergamo’s series	$	
	Surgical techniques adopted for pediatric liver transplantation in the Bergamo’s series	$	
Techniques of split liver transplantation		
Conventional split liver transplantation	
Procurement of the left lateral segment	
	Conventional split liver procedure	$	
	Left lateral segment graft	$	
	Isolation of the left hepatic artery	$	
	Isolation of the left branch of the portal vein	$	
	Liver cut surface at the end of the parenchymal transection	$	
	The two liver grafts on the back table at the end of the splitting procedure	$	
Modified split liver transplantation	
Procurement of the left lobe of the liver	
	Modified split liver procedure	$	
	Isolation of the infrarenal aorta and vena cava	$	
	Modified split liver procedure	$	
Implantation of the left lateral segment and of the left lobe of the liver	
	Triangulation technique for caval anastomosis	$	
	Back-table reconstruction of the inferior vena cava	$	
	Implantation of a left graft	$	
Results of split liver transplantation		
Early postoperative course		
	Preoperative, early postoperative and latest follow-up serum AST in split and in whole liver recipients 	$	
	Preoperative, early postoperative and latest follow-up serum ALT in split and in whole liver recipients 	$	
	Preoperative, early postoperative and latest follow-up serum total bilirubin in split and in whole liver recipients 	$	
	Preoperative, early postoperative and latest follow-up serum prothrobin time in split and in whole liver recipients 	$	
 Technical problems		
Vascular complications		
	Angiographic diagnosis of hepatic artery thrombosis	$	
	Angiographic balloon dilation of caval anastomotic stenosis	$	
Biliary complications		
	Postoperative biliary tract dilatation at US scan	$	
	Postoperative biliary tract dilatation at US scan	$	
	Postoperative biliary tract dilatation at US scan 	$	
	Treatment of biliary stenosis by percutaneous transhepatic cholangiographic balloon dilatation 	$	
	Treatment of biliary stenosis by percutaneous transhepatic cholangiographic and surgical intervention	$	
	Treatment of biliary stenosis by surgical revision of the anastomosis	$	
	US-guided percutaneous drainage of biliary leak	$	
	Bilio-digestive anastomotic leak treated with surgical revision of the anastomosis	$	
	US-guided percutaneous drainage of biliary leak	$	
Other complications		
	Right pleural effusion at chest X-ray	$	
	Right pleural effusion at chest US scan	$	
	Surgical folding of the diaphragm in a case of diaphragmatic hemi-paralysis	$	
	Persisting ascites after abdominal drainage at US scan	$	
Pathology of pediatric liver transplantation		
	Liver histology in mild acute rejection	$	
	Liver histology in moderate acute rejection	$	
	Liver histology in severe acute rejection	$	
	Liver histology in chronic rejection	$	
	Liver histology inde-novo autoimmune hepatitis	$	
	Liver histology in de-novoautoimmune hepatitis	$	
	Liver histology infunctional cholestasis	$	
	Liver histology infunctional cholestasis	$	
	Liver histology infunctional cholestasis	$	
Survival and results		
	Median waiting time for pediatric liver transplantation in the Bergamo’s series	$	
	Actuarial overall patient and graft survival rates in the Bergamo’s series	$	
	Actuarial overall patient survival rates stratified by different surgical techniques in the Bergamo’s series	$	
	Actuarial overall patient survival rates for split liver recipients stratified by UNOS status in the Bergamo’s series	$