Hepatobiliary Surgical Program
Children’s Mercy Kansas City 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:
- Hepatologists
- Gastroenterologists
- Radiologists
- Pathologists
- Infectious disease specialists
- Geneticists
- Nurse practitioners
- 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