title: Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: The present review outlines the principles of living donor liver transplantation, donor workup, procedure and outcomes. Living donation offers a solution to the growing gap between the need for liver transplants and the limited availability of deceased donor organs. With a multidisciplinary team focused on donor safety and experienced surgeons capable of performing complex resection/reconstruction procedures, donor morbidity is low and recipient outcomes are comparable with results of deceased donor transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Multiorgan Transplantation Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario.
authors.forename: Shimul A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Gary A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Lesley D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Adcock
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D019520:Living Donors; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends; D016896:Treatment Outcome