Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation.
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.
Shah
Shimul A
SA
Multiorgan Transplantation Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario.
Levy
Gary A
GA
Adcock
Lesley D
LD
Gallagher
Gary
G
Grant
David R
DR
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