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Liver transplantation (LT) is the only successful treatment approach. Our aim is to present the good long-term outcomes after liver transplantation for PFIC1, focusing on liver function as well as the occurrence of extrahepatic manifestation after liver transplantation. Materials and Methods: A total of seven pediatric patients with PFIC1 underwent liver transplantation between January 1999 and September 2019 at the Department of Surgery, Charit\u00e9 Campus Virchow Klinikum and Charit\u00e9 Campus Mitte of Charit\u00e9-Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin. Long-term follow-up data were collected on all patients, specifically considering liver function and extrahepatic manifestations. Results: Seven (3.2%) recipients were found from a cohort of 219 pediatric patients. Two of the seven patients had multilocular HCC in cirrhosis. Disease recurrence or graft loss did not occur in any patient. Two patients (male, siblings) had persistently elevated liver parameters but showed excellent liver function. Patient and graft survival during long-term follow-up was 100%, and no severe extrahepatic manifestations requiring hospitalization or surgery occurred. We noted a low complication rate during long-term follow-up and excellent patient outcome. Conclusions: PFIC1 long-term follow-up after LT shows promising results for this rare disease. In particular, the clinical relevance of extrahepatic manifestations seems acceptable, and graft function seems to be barely affected. Further multicenter studies are needed to analyze the clinically inhomogeneous presentation and to better understand the courses after LT.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina57080854","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,22]],"date-time":"2021-08-22T21:47:52Z","timestamp":1629668872000},"page":"854","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Long-Term Outcome after Liver Transplantation for Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"57","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1013-7126","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Safak","family":"G\u00fcl-Klein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Deparment of Surgery, Campus Charit\u00e9 Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4499-1673","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"\u00d6llinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deparment of Surgery, Campus Charit\u00e9 Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Moritz","family":"Schmelzle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deparment of Surgery, Campus Charit\u00e9 Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johann","family":"Pratschke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deparment of Surgery, Campus Charit\u00e9 Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenzel","family":"Sch\u00f6ning","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deparment of Surgery, Campus Charit\u00e9 Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"753","DOI":"10.1016\/S1089-3261(05)70139-2","article-title":"Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: Genetic Basis and Treatment","volume":"4","author":"Jacquemin","year":"2000","journal-title":"Clin. 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