Living-related donor liver transplantation in adults: experience at Shinshu University Hospital.
Several considerations and improved techniques for performing LRLT in adults have been discussed. Taking into account the worldwide shortage of cadaveric organ grafts, the significance of LRLT for adult patients will probably never diminish. Further study is needed to clarify the factors governing the outcome of adult-to-adult LRLT.
Hashikura
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First Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Kawasaki
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S
Miyagawa
S
S
Terada
M
M
Ikegami
T
T
Miwa
S
S
Kubota
T
T
Mita
A
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016896:Treatment Outcome