Mycophenolate mofetil use is associated with reduced incidence of food allergy in liver transplanted children.

Objectives: The incidence of food allergy in children following liver transplantation is high and the pathogenesis is still not known. We aimed to identify risk factors for development of food allergies in liver transplant children.

Methods: 107 children and adolescents who underwent liver transplantation from 1999 to 2019 were included.

Outcome for biliary atresia patients treated at a low-volume centre.

Objectives: The importance of case load for treatment of extrahepatic biliary atresia (BA) is debated. The aim of this study was to register results of BA treatment in a small volume centre.

Methods: Retrospective chart review study of patients with BA treated from 2000 to 2017.

Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in patients with chronic intestinal failure.

Background: Patients with chronic intestinal failure are treated primarily with parenteral nutrition, often for many years. If serious complications arise for intravenous nutritional therapy, it is possible to perform intestinal or multi-organ transplantation in selected patients. We have established a collaboration with Professor Michael Olausson at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg and Professor Andreas Tzakis at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, USA, to provide an option for Norwegian patients with chronic intestinal failure.

[Liver transplantation in Norway through 25 years].

Background: In Norway, liver transplantation has been the treatment of choice for irreversible acute and chronic liver failure for 25 years. The aim of this article is to present a summary of the results obtained.

Material And Methods: All liver transplants performed in Norway in the period 25.

Comparative levels of psychological distress, stress symptoms, depression and anxiety after childbirth--a prospective population-based study of mothers and fathers.

Objective: To compare maternal and paternal psychological responses following birth of a healthy baby; and to explore predictors of parental psychological distress.

Design: A prospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort study.

Setting: A Norwegian district general hospital.