SAN DIEGO—Liver transplant may be a poor indicator of disease progression in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis and bile salt export pump deficiency, because the reason for liver transplant is not always progressive liver disease, according to a new analysis of data from the Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN).
“Liver transplant in PFIC [progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis] may be performed for a number of different indications, including