title: Transplantation: Minimizing the risks for living donors of right lobe liver grafts.
abstract: Minimizing donor risks during living donor liver transplantation is important. A recent study recommends that a right lobe graft with the middle hepatic vein is obtained from donors <50 years old who have an intact segment four drainage vein and remnant liver volume >30%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. egawa@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Egawa