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The introduction of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been one of the most remarkable steps in the field of liver transplantation (LT). First introduced for children in 1989, its adoption for adults has followed only 10 years later. As the demand for LT continues to increase, LDLT...
Liver transplantLiving donorDonor evaluationRight hepatectomyLeft hepatectomyLeft lateral hepatectomyDonor morbidityDonor mortalityBiliary complicationsNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1016/S0168-8278(03)00009-6Dieter C BroeringMartina Sterneck...
Living donor and auxiliary liver transplantation are likely to improve survival rates further and reduce the number of patients requiring long-term post-transplant immunosuppression.doi:10.1002/lt.25610Amar GuptaBaylor Simmons Transplant InstituteBaylor University Medical Center Dallas TXSumeet K. Asrani...
ULAN BATOR, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Surgeons at the National Cancer Center of Mongolia successfully performed the nation's first liver transplant from a living donor on Sunday. A team of 42 surgeons transplanted a section of liver from a 20-year old man into his 42-year old uncle. The surg...
The book describes in detail the technical aspects of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT), the routine practice of the world renowned Liver Transplant Team at Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital, and our views on various issues of the operation. The thorough review on the history and technical...
In 1994, surgeons were able to successfully transplant the right hepatic lobe from a living donor, thus providing the recipient with sufficient liver volume.[2] The advantages of LDLT are the shortened waiting period, the ability to optimize the recipient's health status, decrease in cold-...
There are limited data on the efficacy of living donor liver transplantation in the setting of HCC. Based on a limited cohort of patients undergoing transplantation for HCC at Northwestern University Medical Center, a higher recurrence rate, stage for stage, was found in recipients whose transplant...
Living donor liver transplantLiver transplantLiving donorDonor evaluationRight hepatectomyLeft hepatectomyLeft lateral hepatectomyDonor morbidityDonor mortalityBiliary complicationsLiver transplantations using a part of the liver from a living donor are already being performed around the world. The main arguments...
Liver Transplantation 10 , 1432 – 1435 .Stone JJ,Chang SH,Kimball PM,Stravitz RT,Fisher RA. Living donor liver transplant with clinical tolerance, laboratory evidence of chimerism, and spontaneous clearance of HBV.[J].Liver transplantation: official publication of the American Association for the ...