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Evans IVR, Belle SH, Wei Y, Penovich C, Ruppert K, Detre KM for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases – Liver Transplantation Database. Post-transplantation growth among pediatric recipients of liver transplantation. Pediatr Transplantation 2005: 9: 480–485. © 2005 Blackwell Munksgaard Improving a patient's quality-of-life (QOL) post-liver transplantation is of great importance. An aspect of improved QOL is the restoration of normal growth patterns in pediatric patients. To describe the post-transplantation growth patterns of 72 children included in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases – Liver Transplantation Database (NIDDK-LTD), multilevel models were used, according to which children who waited more than a year for transplantation were smaller, compared with age and sex matched peers, at transplantation than children who waited less than a year while children who were growth retarded at transplantation experienced a larger yearly comparison height increase than children who were not growth retarded. The analysis also showed that boys older than 2 yr and younger than 13 yr at transplantation and girls older than 2 yr and younger than 11 yr at transplantation were significantly less growth retarded at transplantation than boys and girls under the age of 2 yr at transplantation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]