Pediatric cholestatic liver disease: Successful transition of care

[摘要] With recent medical advances, more patients withchildhood-onset liver disease and more pediatric livertransplant recipients are surviving into adulthood, generating distinctive challenges to adult primary care providers. Young adults with pediatric liver disease are a uniquecohort of patients with different evaluation and monitoring strategies, treatment, complications, and comorbidities. This creates a critical need for successful transitionof these patients into adult care, with incorporation of aformal transitional model and multidisciplinary team.

[学科分类] 卫生学