Early Clinical Milestones for the Program On January 20, 1998, the first living related liver transplant was performed at Babies & Children’s Hospital.  The first patient was a one-year-old girl suffering with biliary atresia.  Since then, transplants have been successfully performed on infants as young as 14 weeks.  In that instance, a baby diagnosed with biliary atresia at two weeks of age was brought to Babies & Children’s after a Kasai procedure to drain bile from the liver into the bowel was unsuccessful.  After evaluation, it was determined that the mother would be a suitable donor and efforts were made to stabilize the infant nutritionally. The transplant operation, using the left lateral segment of the mother’s liver, was successfully performed at fourteen weeks.  The child’s condition rapidly improved, with weight gain and improved color, offering evidence of the surgery’s success.  Today, the child continues to thrive, having met all developmental milestones; and the mother’s liver has regrown to normal size. Statistics compiled from the Center’s first six months of transplantation compare favorably to established programs elsewhere: The average operating room time for donors is 3.5 hours;  for recipients, 4.5 hours.  The average recipient length of stay is twelve days. The program survival rate for recipients and donors is 100%. More than 100 patients have undergone evaluation for transplant in the six months since the launch of the program.