Transition of care is a critical process for paediatric liver transplant recipients as they move from child-centered to adult-oriented healthcare services. This period is not merely a transfer of medical responsibility, but a structured, multidisciplinary approach aimed at fostering autonomy, adherence to treatment, and long-term graft survival. The group in mainly focused in ensuring a structured transition progress for adolescent liver transplant recipients able to measure effectiveness of transition, to reduce dispersion and non-adherence. Moreover, the group is focusing in evaluating outcomes after transition, in terms of long-term allograft health and patients’ global outcomes.

Publications:

• Alberto Ferrarese, Mara Cananzi, Luca Bosa, Annalisa Dolcet et al., At the boundaries: analyzing short and long-term outcome after paediatric liver transplantation: Padua experience, Dig Liv Dis., 2025.57: S89
• Patrizia Burra.  The adolescent and liver transplantation. J Hepatol 2012;56(3):714-722.
• Patrizia Burra, Alberto Ferrarese, Giuseppe Feltrin. Quality of life and adherence in liver transplant recipients. Minerva Gastroenterol Dietol 2018;64(2):180-186.
• Alberto Ferrarese, Giacomo Germani, Silvia Lazzaro, Mara Cananzi, Francesco Paolo Russo et al.  Short-term outcomes of paediatric liver transplant recipients after transition to Adult Healthcare Service. Liver Int 2018;38(7):1316-1321.

Funding:

Ordinary Department funding

People involved:

Patrizia Burra, Full Professor
Alberto Ferrarese, Assistant Professor
Nora Cazzagon, Assistant Professor
Alberto Zanetto, Assistant Professor
Fabiana Zingone, Associate Professor
Francesco Paolo Russo, Associate Professor
Giacomo Germani, Associate Professor

Group members:

Martina Gambato, Marco Senzolo (Consultant Hepatologists), Francesca D’Arcangelo, Laura Marta Vivian (GI fellows).