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Case Reports
. 2025 May;29(3):e70066.
doi: 10.1111/petr.70066.

Sequential Liver-Kidney Transplant for Cranioectodermal Dysplasia

Rebecca Berger  1 , Min Kim  1 , Leyat Tal  1   2 , Nhu Thao Nguyen Galvan  3 , Donna Garner  4 , Poyyapakkam Srivaths  1   2
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Case Reports

Sequential Liver-Kidney Transplant for Cranioectodermal Dysplasia

Rebecca Berger et al. Pediatr Transplant. 2025 May.

Abstract

Background: Cranioectodermal dysplasia (CED) is a rare ciliopathy that causes mortality through its impact on liver and kidney dysfunction. To date, there has only been a single report of a successful kidney-liver transplant in a pediatric patient with CED.

Case presentation: We present a pediatric patient who received a sequential liver-kidney transplant due to progressive organ dysfunction caused by CED. At the age of 7, the patient underwent a liver transplant, followed sequentially by a kidney transplant 5 years later. We provide a 3-year follow-up to the kidney transplantation.

Results: The liver transplant was complicated by a portal vein stricture causing portal hypertension, which required revision. The patient had no complications from the kidney transplant despite comorbidities related to the CED diagnosis, such as thrombocytopenia.

Conclusions: We discuss the viability of the sequential liver-kidney transplant for patients with CED and suggest that physicians consider this sequence if their patients with CED present with corresponding sequential organ failure.

Keywords: Sensenbrenner syndrome; cranioectodermal dysplasia; liver–kidney transplant; thrombocytopenia.

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