[Cytomegalovirus infection and disease in pediatric solid organ transplantation. Experience in a Chilean multiorganic transplantation center].

Unlabelled: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and disease in transplant (Tx) recipients may severely complicate the patients outcome.

Aim: To determine the incidence, clinical characteristics and risk factors for CMV infection and disease in liver and kidney transplant recipients in a tertiary care children's hospital.

Method: A clinical and laboratory evaluation was prospectively performed in 44 and 20 children receiving a renal and liver Tx respectively in the Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna between 2004 and 2006.

[Small bowel transplantation: Report of a single case].

Small bowel transplantation is associated with a patient survival at one and five years, of 80% and 63%, respectively. We report a 36 year-old female with short bowel syndrome, subjected to the first small bowel transplantation performed in Chile. A cadaveric gran was used.

[Early steroid withdrawal in pediatric renal transplantation].

Background: Cardiovascular risk, growth failure and the new immunosuppressive drugs, have encouraged steroid withdrawal or total avoidance with promising results in renal transplant (Tx) immunosuppression.

Aim: To evaluate a new immunosuppressor protocol with early withdrawal of steroids in pediatric kidney transplant.

Patients And Methods: Prospective study in pediatric patients older than 1 year and low immunological risk.

[Primary biliary cirrhosis: a thirteen years experience].

Background: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic cholestatic disease, which can progress to hepatic failure.

Aim: To study the clinical presentation, pathological features, treatment and outcome of a group of patients with PBC.

Material And Methods: Retrospective review of medical records of 115 patients (110 females, age range 30-76 years) with PBC.