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CLiC Cholestatic Liver Disease Consortium

Participaiting Clinical Centers

University of California, San Francisco

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UCSF Children's Hospital Web Site

Contact Information:

Philip Rosenthal, MD
CLiC Site Principal Investigator
E-mail: prosenth@peds.ucsf.edu

Grace E. Kim, MD
CLiC Pathologist

Laura Bull, PhD
CLiC Genetics Core Director

Danusia Filipowski, MD
Study Coordinator
E-mail: Filipowskid@peds.ucsf.edu
Phone: 415.476.1756
Fax: 415.476.1343

About Us:

Dr. Philip Rosenthal, medical director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at UCSF Children's Hospital, is an internationally renowned specialist in children's liver disease, including liver cancer. Rosenthal treats children and young adults up to age 21. He also is the director of Pediatric Hepatology and a professor of pediatrics and surgery at UCSF. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology.

Useful Links:

University of California San Fransisco

UCSF School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology

USFC Children's Hospital Transplants

Publications:

1996 P. Rosenthal. Is having a -1-antitrypsin deficiency necessarily bad for your liver? Am. J. Gastroenterol. 91: 1053-1054.

1999 R.E. Quiros-Tejeira, M.E. Ament, M.B. Heyman, M.G. Martin, P. Rosenthal, T.R. Hall, S.V. McDiarmid and J.H. Vargas. Variable morbidity in Alagille syndrome: a review of 43 cases. J. Pediatr. Gastroenterol. Nutr. 29: 431-437.

2000 R.E. Quiros-Tejeira, M.E. Ament, M.B. Heyman, M.G. Martin, P. Rosenthal, J.A. Gornbein, S.V. McDiarmid and J.H. Vargas. Does liver transplantation affect growth pattern in Alagille syndrome? Liver Transplant. 6: 582-587.

Reichert PR, Renz JF, D'Albuquerque LAC, Rosenthal P, Lim RC, Roberts JP, Ascher NL and Emond JC. Surgical anatomy of the left lateral segment as applied to living-donor and split-liver transplantation: a clinico-pathologic study. Ann Surg 232: 658-664, 2000.

Comanor L, Minor J, Conjeevaram HS, Roberts EA, Alvarez F, Bern EM, Goyens P, Rosenthal P, Lachaux A, Shelton M, Sarles J and Sokal EM. Impact of chronic hepatitis B and interferon- a therapy on growth of children. J Viral Hepatitis 8: 139-147, 2001.

Unnithan VB, Veehof SHE, Rosenthal P, Mudge C, O'Brien TH and Painter P. Fitness testing of pediatric liver transplant recipients. Liver Transpl 7: 206-212, 2001.

Koh BY, Rosenthal P, Medeiros J, Zhou Y, Osorio RW, Roberts JP, Ascher NL and Gelb AB. Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders in pediatric patients undergoing liver transplantation: a clinicopathologic and molecular study. Arch Pathol Lab Med 125: 337-343, 2001.

Benador N, Grimm P, Lavine J, Rosenthal P, Reznik V and Lemire J. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt prior to renal transplantation in a child with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease and portal hypertension: a case report. Pediatr Transplant 5: 210-214, 2001.

Bahar RJ, Yanni GS, Martin MG, McDiarmid SV, Vargas JH, Gershman GB, Heyman MB, Rosenthal P, Tipton JR, Nanjundiah P, Starr A and Ament ME. Orthotopic liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis and cryptogenic chronic hepatitis in children. Transplantation 72: 829-833, 2001.

Renz JF, de Roos M, Rosenthal P, Mudge C, Bacchetti P, Watson J, Roberts JP, Ascher NL and Emond JC. Posttransplantation growth in pediatric liver recipients. Liver Transplant 7: 1040-1055, 2001.

Wang ZJ, Coakley FV, Ferrell LD and Rosenthal P. CT and MRI of hepatic pseudotumor in long-standing biliary atresia. J Comput Assist Tomogr 26: 444-447, 2002.

Diaz GC, Renz JF, Mudge C, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Emond JC and Rosenthal P. Donor health assessment following living-donor liver transplantation. Ann Surg 236: 120-126, 2002.

Toyoki Y, Renz JF, Mudge C, Ascher NL, Roberts JP and Rosenthal P. Allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplantation: comparison between cadaveric and living related donors. Pediatr Transplant 6: 301-307, 2002.

Rosenthal P. Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis A vaccination in children, adolescents, and adults .  Hepatology 37: 44-51, 2003.

Takanashi JI, Barkovich AJ, Cheng SF, Weisiger K, Zlatunich CO, Mudge C, Rosenthal P, Tuchman M and Packman S. Brain MR imaging in neonatal hyperammonemic encephalopathy resulting from proximal urea cycle disorders. Am J Neuroradiol 24: 1184-1187, 2003.

Tsao KJ, Rosenthal P, Dhawan K, Danzer E, Sydorak R, Hirose S, Farmer DL, Albanese CT, Harrison MR and Lee H. Comparison of drainage techniques for biliary atresia.  J Pediatr Surg 38: 1005-1007, 2003.

Jacobs RJ, Rosenthal P and Meyerhoff AS. Cost effectiveness of hepatitis A/B versus hepatitis B vaccination for US prison inmates. Vaccine 22: 1241-1248, 2004.

Demetriou AA, Brown, RS, Jr, Busuttil RW, Fair J, McGuire BM, Rosenthal P, Schulte am Esch J, II, Lerut J, Nyberg SL, Salizzoni M, Fagan EA, de Hemptinne B, Broelsch CE, Muraca M, Salmeron JM, Rabkin JM, Metselaar HJ, Pratt D, De La Mata M, McChesney LP, Everson GT, Lavin PT, Stevens AC, Pitkin Z and Solomon BA. Prospective, randomized, multicenter, controlled trial of a bioartificial liver in treating acute liver failure. Ann Surg 239: 660-670, 2004.

Suskind DL, Rosenthal P, Heyman MB, Kong D, Magrane G, Baxter-Lowe LA and Muench MO. Maternal microchimerism in the livers of patients with biliary atresia. BMC Gastroenterol 4: Art. No.14, 2004.

Visser BC, Suh I, Hirose S, Rosenthal P, Lee H, Roberts JP and Hirose R. The influence of portoenterostomy on transplantation for biliary atresia. Liver Transplant 10: 1279-1286, 2004.

Crandall WV, Barnard JA, Cohen MB, Colletti RB, Ferry GD, Harnsberger JK, Hart MH, Hayes JR, Rosenthal P, Sherman PM, Smith LJ; A Report of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 40: 397-405, 2005.