Liver Transplantation for Biliary Atresia: Is There a Difference in Outcome for Infants?
The vast majority of transplants for BA occur in children<2 years of age. Younger patients with BA had significantly higher waitlist and posttransplant mortality. Given the consistently poorer outcomes, there is an urgent need to find methods to improve bile drainage after the Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy.
Neuroreceptors do exist in the tissue of peri-implant bone, but much less than the periodontal ligament. These neuroreceptors could receive electrical stimulus then evoke SNAP of the inferior alveolar nerve stem. In unloaded condition, the reconstruction of never endings in the peri-implant bone tissue is apparently time-dependent.