Surgeons in this program have performed more than 100 heart transplants, with a one-year survival rate approaching 90 percent. More than 60 children, ranging in age from three months to 15 years, have received liver transplants at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Transplant surgeons have developed the experience and expertise to reduce the size of larger livers for use in infants and smaller children. As a natural outgrowth of this technique, St. Louis Children's Hospital has established a living-donor liver transplant program, where a portion of a healthy adult relative's liver is transplanted into the child. We also have one of the world's largest programs in dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy, and have performed more than 600 dorsal rhizotomy procedures.
Patients come from as far as Russia, Korea and Slovakia.
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