Services & Programs
If your child becomes ill with liver disease, they will require the kind of excellent and compassionate care that our Pediatric Liver Program at the Children’s Hospital of Montefiore Einstein (CHAM) offers. While educating and assisting your family throughout the process, our highly skilled pediatric liver specialists are committed to providing the best care to children— newborn infants to young adults—with all forms of pediatric liver disease.
Our multidisciplinary team includes hepatologists, gastroenterologists, hepatobiliary surgeons, transplant surgeons, pediatric intensive care physicians, pediatric anesthesiologists, infectious disease specialists, radiologists, interventional radiologists, pathologists, transplant immunologists, nurse practitioners, transplant coordinators, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists and financial counselors, among all other subspecialties and supportive staff at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein.
We Explore all Treatment Options
Once we fully understand your child’s particular disorder, we will explore and discuss all treatment options before deciding on the best course of action for your child. We will keep you informed throughout the process. We understand how unsettling and frightening a diagnosis of pediatric liver disease can be, and will hold your hand every step of the way. Our doctors, nurses and other experts will discuss various treatment alternatives with you in detail and answer any questions you might have. Our team uses the least invasive approaches possible to set your child on the road to recovery.
We use leading-edge technology to diagnose and treat conditions, such as:
- Acute liver failure
- Autoimmune hepatitis, sclerosing cholangitis and other immune-mediated disorders
- Biliary atresia and other inherited hepatobiliary malformations
- Liver Transplantation
- Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis
- Drug-induced liver disease
- Fatty liver disease (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease—MASLD) and obesity
- Infections of the liver, viral hepatitis or other viruses
- Liver cancers such as hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma
- Liver complications from other chronic conditions
- Metabolic and genetic liver diseases
- Neonatal cholestasis
- Portal hypertension