title: Initial Outcomes of Pure Laparoscopic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy in an Experienced Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Center.
abstract: Only a limited number of centers have performed laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy to date. In particular, laparoscopic right hepatectomy is rarely performed because the procedure can only be performed by surgeons with significant experience in both laparoscopic liver surgery and liver transplantation with living donor liver grafts.
  
  
  
  Between November 2014 and February 2015, in a pure laparoscopic approach program for living right lobe donors at Asan Medical Center, 92 living donors underwent right hepatectomy for adult living donor liver transplantation. Among these, 3 pure laparoscopic living donor right hepatectomies were performed in 3 young female donors.
  
  
  
  The intraoperative and postoperative courses for all 3 donors and recipients were uneventful without any complications. Laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy has definite advantages over conventional open surgery, including decreased wound morbidity and faster recovery.
  
  
  
  According to the data of the present report, pure laparoscopic living donor right hepatectomy in properly selected living donors (only 4% of potential donors in this cohort) appears to be a safe and feasible procedure in adult living donor liver transplantation.
authors.affiliation: 1 Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepato-Biliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ki-Hun
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Hwa
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Dong-Hwan
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Young-In
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Wan-Joon
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Min-Ho
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Sung-Gyu
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D008875:Middle Aged