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Clinical research Texas Children's Liver Center is among a handful of centers in the nation that participate in National Institutes of Health-funded protocols, including: BARC (Biliary Atresia Research Consortium) CLIC (Cholestatic Liver Disease Consortium) SPLIT (Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation) PALF (Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study) Therapy of PTLD Fatty Liver Disease For more information about participating in one of these clinical trials, contact us.

Texas Children’s Liver Center is the largest pediatric liver disease program in the South and among the largest in the United States. Our highly-skilled pediatric surgeons and specialists are committed to providing clinical care to children with all forms of pediatric liver disease, evaluating and treating the tiniest premature infants to young adults.

A commitment to excellence proven by our outcomes: As part of Texas Children's Hospital, the Liver Center team strives to provide the highest-level of care to our patients and their families. The median intensive care unit stay at the Texas Children's is two days and the median length of hospitalization is seven days. Our pediatric liver transplant survival rate is 95 percent at one year and 90 percent at 3 years, well above national averages of 86 percent and 77 percent, respectively.

Cutting-edge clinical research: Texas Children's Liver Center is one of the few pediatric liver centers in the country with a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art research laboratory dedicated basic and clinical research aimed at improving the care and outcomes for children with liver disease. We are among only a handful of centers in the nation and the only in Texas that participate in multiple NIH-sponsored protocols.

Providing complete care for infants, children and teens with liver disease: Pediatric specialists at Texas Children's Liver Center provide assessment, treatment and comprehensive follow-up care for a wide variety of disorders that impact normal liver function. These include:

• Biliary atresia and other forms of inherited hepatobiliary malformations
• Metabolic liver diseases such as glycogen storage disease, tyrosinemia, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency), Wilson disease, PFIC, mitochondrial diseases, Allagile syndrome
• Infections of the liver including acute and chronic hepatitis A, B and C
• Autoimmune hepatitis, sclerosing cholangitis and other immune-mediated disorders
• Liver complications from chronic conditions such as short gut syndrome in premature infants or cystic fibrosis
• Comprehensive nutritional support for patients with chronic liver disease
• Fatty liver disease and obesity

For those patients who require surgical intervention, Texas Children’s Liver Center's pediatric surgeons perform liver resections, bile duct resections, tumor extractions and liver transplantation including living donor and in-situ split liver transplants. All aspects of pre- and post-liver transplant care are provided in a state-of-the-art setting using the latest technological advances. 

Our commitment to you
The staff of Texas Children's Liver Center team believes in the comprehensive, compassionate and respectful care of patients and their families. We are sensitive to the emotional and physical needs of our patients and feel we are all apart of the same team with the same goal: saving the life of a child.