Abdominal Organ Transplantation News

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has the best one- and three-year post-transplant patient and graft survival rates in the nation for pediatric liver transplants, according to newly released 2025 data

A new class of drugs can relieve itching for cholestatic childhood liver disease and potentially lengthen time until a liver transplant is necessary.

Diagnosed with liver disease at 2 months of age, Mia and her family turned to CHLA’s world-class pediatric Liver Transplant Program to save her life.

CHLA-led study shows reducing disparities in assigning livers for transplant improved outcomes for patients with pediatric acute liver failure.

After enduring years of severe abdominal pain, a teenager becomes the first pediatric patient in Southern California to undergo a rare procedure called TPIAT.

Diagnosed with hepatoblastoma at 17 months old, Aaroh is thriving thanks to chemotherapy and a liver transplant—and the experts at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who gave him life.

Olivia needed a new bladder and a transplanted kidney, so her family entrusted Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to pull off the most complex procedures and save her life.

Study finds that T-cells expressing PD-1 may help predict recovery in children with acute liver failure.

A surgeon and Research Director for the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Dr. Emamaullee is taking a high-tech approach to challenge that status quo.