Referral Guidelines for Liver Transplant for Metabolic Disease

Your patient is in the right hands at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

To refer a patient for pediatric liver transplantation for metabolic disease, please contact our Referral Transplant Coordinator:

Renee Brown-Bakewell Phone: 412-692-6310 Email: renee.brown-bakewell@chp.edu

Office hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Refer a Patient for Liver Transplant for Metabolic Disease

Patient info

When referring a patient, please have the following:

• Patient name.
• Patient date of birth.
• Patient address.
• Patient Social Security Number (for U.S. patients).
• Patient insurance (copy of insurance card, if you have it).
• Parent or guardian contact info, including home and cell phone numbers.

Clinical summary

• All operative notes.
• Vascular studies.
• Most recent outpatient records.
• Most recent blood work.
• Radiologic studies, including CT scans.
• Biopsy slides (pertinent to diagnosis).
• Discharge summaries from prior hospitalizations.
• Current hospital records, if your patient is in the hospital right now.