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Yaron Avitzur

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ProfessorDepartment of PaediatricsUniversity of Toronto

Yaron Avitzur

Professor

Department of Paediatrics

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Anonymous living donation expands access and enhances equity in pediatric liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2026
Reduced strength is associated with abnormal body composition in children with a history of intestinal failure.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026
Impact of plasma aluminum on neurocognitive outcomes at early school age in children with intestinal failure.
Intestinal Failure (New York, N.Y.) · 2026 · senior author

All 90 publications

Latest funding

Defining and Targeting Autoimmune Liver Disease
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$1,600,000

All 1 grants and awards

90 publications.

Anonymous living donation expands access and enhances equity in pediatric liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study.

Yodoshi T, Stunguris J, De Angelis M, Van Roestel K, Hensley J, Avitzur Y, Bandsma RHJ, Jones N, Kamath B, Miserachs M, Wiggins C, Selzner N, Ghanekar A, Cattral M, Sayed BA, Ng VL

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society20265 citations

DOI: 10.1097/lvt.0000000000000753 PMID: 41104559

Reduced strength is associated with abnormal body composition in children with a history of intestinal failure.

Yanchis D, So S, Patterson C, Belza C, Garofalo E, Wong-Sterling S, Silva C, Avitzur Y, Wales PW, Hulst JM, Kong D, Xu L, Li Y, Courtney-Martin G

Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1002/jpn3.70307 PMID: 41363022

Impact of plasma aluminum on neurocognitive outcomes at early school age in children with intestinal failure.

Maltais-Bilodeau C, Green R, Courtney-Martin G, Gattini D, Belza C, Gold A, Avitzur Y

Intestinal Failure (New York, N.Y.)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.intf.2026.100365 PMID: 41859347

Listening to the Patient Voice: Assessing Quality of Life and Anxiety Risk in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients.

Flanagan M, Kwan K, John T, De Angelis M, Van Roestel K, MacDonald T, Stunguris J, Ferguson S, Avitzur Y, Miserachs M, Ng VL

Pediatric transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70327 PMID: 42209897

Single-cell atlas of human pediatric liver reveals age-related hepatic gene signatures.

Edgar RD, Nakib D, Camat D, Chung S, Lumanto P, Atif J, Perciani CT, Ma XZ, Thoeni C, Selvakumaran N, Manuel J, Sayed B, Huysentruyt K, Ricciuto A, McGilvray I, Avitzur Y, Bader GD, MacParland SA

Hepatology communications20259 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/hc9.0000000000000813 PMID: 41056487

Combined liver with other solid organ transplants: Promises, pitfalls and ethical dilemmas.

Russo FP, Murad SD, Pillai AA, Shingina A, Donahoe L, Mrzljak A, Avitzur Y, Burra P, Selzner N

Journal of hepatology20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2025.04.027 PMID: 40316053

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes following liver transplantation for metabolic disease-a single centre experience.

Patterson C, Gold A, So S, Kahnami L, Dworsky-Fried M, Mamak E, Rogers A, Schulze A, Ertl-Wagner B, Ng V, Avitzur Y

Journal of inherited metabolic disease20255 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/jimd.12785 PMID: 39135350

Anesthesia management for pediatric intestinal transplantation-a single-centre case series of eleven patients.

Long M, Siddiqui A, Avitzur Y, Parra D, Sayed B, Ghanekar A, Cattral M, Sun N

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie20251 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-025-02976-6 PMID: 40481357

Utility of phase angle in children with intestinal failure.

Yanchis D, Chandrakumar A, So S, Patterson C, Belza C, Silva C, Garofalo E, Wong-Sterling S, Avitzur Y, Wales PW, Li Y, Bowers J, Hulst JM, Courtney-Martin G

Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)20251 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2025.07.017 PMID: 40743775

Conversion from SMOFlipid® to Omegaven® as a salvage therapy for intestinal failure associated liver disease.

Sabbatini S, Takamatsu F, Belza C, Courtney-Martin G, Gattini D, Avitzur Y

Intestinal Failure (New York, N.Y.)2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.intf.2025.100058 PMID: 41648859

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Yaron Avitzur

Research

Latest papers

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Anonymous living donation expands access and enhances equity in pediatric liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study.

Reduced strength is associated with abnormal body composition in children with a history of intestinal failure.

Impact of plasma aluminum on neurocognitive outcomes at early school age in children with intestinal failure.

Listening to the Patient Voice: Assessing Quality of Life and Anxiety Risk in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients.

Single-cell atlas of human pediatric liver reveals age-related hepatic gene signatures.

Combined liver with other solid organ transplants: Promises, pitfalls and ethical dilemmas.

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes following liver transplantation for metabolic disease-a single centre experience.

Anesthesia management for pediatric intestinal transplantation-a single-centre case series of eleven patients.

Utility of phase angle in children with intestinal failure.

Conversion from SMOFlipid&#xae; to Omegaven&#xae; as a salvage therapy for intestinal failure associated liver disease.

Defining and Targeting Autoimmune Liver Disease

Frequent collaborators

Glenda Courtney-Martin

Anand Ghanekar

Mark Cattral

Binita Kamath

Nicola Jones

Jessie Hulst

David Grant

Upton Allen

Vicky Ng

Aleixo Muise

Anne Dipchand

Annie Fecteau

Melinda Solomon

Bo-Yee Ngan

Robert Bandsma

Eyal Grunebaum

Dehan Kong

Simon Ling

Wendy Ungar

Eyal Cohen

Iram Siddiqui

Rose Chami

Philip Sherman

Ahmed Naqvi

Damien Noone

Catherine Diskin

Mina Matsuda-Abedini

Elizabeth Harvey

Adam Rapoport

Conversion from SMOFlipid® to Omegaven® as a salvage therapy for intestinal failure associated liver disease.