Hepatobiliary Surgical Program
Hepatobiliary Surgical Program
In addition to transplant surgery, Children’s Mercy Kansas City also provides complex pediatric hepatobiliary (liver and bile tract) surgical interventions. We pride ourselves on the ability to customize comprehensive care for your child and offer multiple care options to find the best fit for your child.
Caring for children with hepatobiliary needs is complex, so our surgeons work closely with many different pediatric specialists. Our multidisciplinary, pediatric-trained team includes:
- Transplant surgeons
- Hepatologists
- Gastroenterologists
- Radiologists
- Pathologists
- Infectious disease specialists
- Geneticists
- Nurse practitioners
- Transplant coordinators
- Nutritionists
- Social workers
- Child Life specialists
Conditions treated
- Vascular lesions
- Vascular malformations, including:
- Capillary malformations (port wine stain)
- Congenital vascular malformations
- Congenital portosystemic shunts (Abernethy Malformation)
- Congenital and acquired arterio-venous malformations
- Congenital and infantile hepatic hemangiomas
- Lymphatic malformations
- Combined vascular malformations
- Syndromes associated with vascular lesions
- Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome
- Maffucci's syndrome
- Proteus syndrome
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome)
- Ataxia-telangiectasia (Louis-Bar's syndrome)
- Lymphangiectasia
- Lymphedema
- Vascular malformations, including:
- Portal hypertension
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Portal hypertension from liver disease
- Portal hypertension from venous outflow problems
- Advanced biliary tract surgery
- Biliary stresia
- Alagille syndrome
- Familial cholestatic diseases
- Choledochal cyst
- Liver tumors
- Hepatoblastoma
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
Abernethy Malformation: Dawson’s Story
Dawson Berg kept having severe infections requiring surgery and other complex care. His family was told that liver transplant may be his only option, until the team at Children’s Mercy diagnosed him with Abernethy Malformation. After a shunt ligation surgery, he’s able to live a normal life, free from serious infections.
Portal Hypertension: Taylor’s Story
After an early fight against cancer as a toddler, Taylor developed life-threatening portal hypertension as a pre-teen. The team in the Children’s Mercy Liver Care Center was able to give her a surgical solution to get her healthy and back home.
