Living Donor Liver Transplantation (original) (raw)

r Living donor liver transplantation has been a major area of development in the field for the last two decades. r Major technical and physiological advances have made this technology the standard of care in parts of the world where the deceased donor options are rare or non-existent. r In most Western countries where the majority of liver transplantation is performed with deceased donor grafts, the decision to use a living donor rather than wait for a deceased donor graft is a complicated ethical and surgical conundrum. r The combination of concern for donor safety and the possible availability of a deceased donor graft has limited the expansion of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation in the West.