title: Technical aspects for live-donor organ procurement for liver, kidney, pancreas, and intestine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article reviews current strategies for living-donor organ procurement in liver, kidney, pancreas, and intestinal transplant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here we summarize current open and laparoscopic approaches to living donation of abdominal organs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Living donation strategies expand the organ pool in the setting of a significant organ shortage.
authors.affiliation: Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Joohyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
mesh_terms: D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000601:surgery*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000592:standards