D - Description
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Quality
Management |
Training and
Education |
Public
Involvement |
| Description | |
|---|---|
Name |
EPLTN - European Paediatric Liver Transplantation Network |
| Year of foundation | 2012 (foundation of EPLTN) |
| Preterm and/or term newborn | Yes |
| Infants from 1 month to less than 24 months of age | Yes |
| Children from 2 years to less than 12 years of age | Yes |
| Adolescents from 12 years to less than 18 years | Yes |
| Paediatric age ranges of study participants covered by the network | 0-18 years |
| Multispeciality? Specify | Specialties like paediatric oncology or immunology are targeted when relevant / related to paediatric hepatology |
| Speciality/disease specific? Specify | Specialty specific: paediatric hepatology with a focus on paediatric liver transplantation and its comorbidities |
| Conditions covered? Specify | Pre-transplant conditions: e.g. hepatic nutritional deficiency, hepatic metabolic bone disease, cirrhotic cardiomyopathy; Post-transplant conditions: graft rejection, graft fibrosis, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, post-transplant cardiovascular disease, post-transplant renal disease |
| Procedure/Intervention specific? Specify | liver transplantation |
| Number of collaborating countries | 7 |
| List of collaborating countries | Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, UK |
| Number of collaborating centres | 7 |
| List of collaborating centres | Service d'Hépatologie-Gastroentérologie-Nutrition, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades, Paris, France Paeditric Liver, GI and Transplantation Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy Dept. Pédiatrie, Serv. spécialités pédiatriques, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland Servicio de Hepatología y Trasplante Hospital Infantil Universitario La Paz Madrid, Madrid, Spain Liver Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka, Warszawa, Poland Paediatric Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| Type of activity/studies | |
| Clinical Studies | Yes |
| Experimental research | No |
| Other activity | Development of clinical guidelines for practitioners; e.g. shared protocols for immunosuppression after liver transplantation |