Living donor liver transplantation: Eastern experiences

Living donor liver transplantation: Eastern experiences.

BACKGROUND The techniques of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) developed rapidly in the 1990s to compensate for a severe deficiency in the availability of liver grafts from cadaveric donors for the treatment of patients with end-stage liver disease. This tendency was particularly prominent in East Asia, as brain-death donors have remained largely unavailable for a variety of reasons. Th...

Living donor liver transplantation.

Living donor liver transplantation.

Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is probably the most high-profile of all surgical enterprises. At the same time, it is an amazing act of altruism. It requires hard work of dedicated multidisciplinary medical teams coupled with the courage of the patients and their families. The concept of LDLT is based on the following two factors: (1) the remarkable regenerative capacity of the liver...

Paediatric living donor liver transplantation.

Paediatric liver transplantation is a highly effective therapy for children with end-stage liver disease; 1-year survival rates currently exceed 90% and long-term survivors enjoy an almost-normal quality of life. Key to the success of paediatric liver transplantation has been the technical refinement to provide children with suitably sized grafts. Adult-to-paediatric living donor liver transpla...