Progress in living donor liver transplantation.
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has the capacity to reduce the current discrepancy between the number of patients on the transplant waiting list and the number of available organ donors. For pediatric patients, LDLT has clearly reduced the number of waiting list deaths, providing compelling evidence for an increase in LDLT programs. This review discusses many of the recent advances in LDLT.
White
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Department of Organ Transplantation, St James University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS9 7TF, UK. steve_islets@hotmail.com
Al-Mukhtar
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Lodge
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Pollard
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D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008115:Liver Regeneration; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000639:trends*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting