Acute Hepatic Allograft Rejection in Pediatric Recipients: Effective Factors

BACKGROUND: Acute cellular rejection (ACR), a reversible process, can affect the graft survival. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation between ACR and clinical factors in recipients of allograft liver transplantation. METHODS: 47 recipients of liver were consecutively enrolled in a retrospective study. Their information were retrieved from their medical records and analyzed. RESULTS: Of the 47 recipients, 38 (81%) experienced acute rejection during 24 months of the transplantation. None of the studied factors for occurring transplant rejection, i.e., blood groups, sex, age, familial history of disease, receiving drugs and blood products, type of donor, Child score, and Child class, was not found to be significant. CONCLUSION: During a limited follow-up period, we did not find any association between ACR and suspected risk factors.