Pediatric liver transplantation: 10 years of experience at a single center in Brazil.

Objectives: To evaluate the first 10 years' experience of the liver transplantation department at the Alfa Institute, Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Methods: A descriptive study, based on a retrospective analysis of 84 children and adolescents enrolled on a liver transplantation waiting list, from March 1995 to January 2006, based on the following variables: age, etiology of underlying liver disease, Child-Pugh, Malatack, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) and pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) scores, time on waiting list, complications and survival after the procedure.

Results: Forty children had 42 liver transplants.

Treatment of superior mesenteric artery embolism with a fibrinolytic agent: case report and literature review.

Successful treatment of superior mesenteric artery embolism depends on an aggressive approach in patients at risk for mesenteric ischemia. This approach favors an early diagnosis and permits the reestablishment of arterial flow within an appropriate time, with prevention of vasospasm and control of organic insufficiencies. We report here a case of superior mesenteric artery embolism in which arterial flow was reestablished by selective intra-arterial infusion of streptokinase.