Living Donor Liver Transplantation Surgical Techniques And Innovations

A complete treatment of adult living donor liver transplantation.

Living donor liver transplantation surgical techniques and innovations.

K tanaka s uemoto y tokunaga. Thomas starzl of denver colorado united states. The liver regenerates almost immediately after surgery and will have reached its near normal size by 6 8 weeks or so says helen s. A review of surgical technique and current challenges to expand indication of patients s g.

Due to the liver s unique ability to regenerate the partial livers of both the donor and recipient soon grow into complete organs. During living liver donation surgeons remove a portion of your liver through an incision in the abdomen. The introduction of microvascular surgery to hepatic artery reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation its surgical advantages compared with conventional procedures. About 40 to 70 of the donor s liver is removed for transplantation.

Lee hepato biliary surgery and liver transplantation asan medical center university of ulsan college of medicine ulsan university seoul republic of korea corresponding author. But until 1970 liver transplant surgery remained experimental with a one. While many transplant centers perform liver transplant surgeries not all perform living liver donation and very few perform non directed liver donation donating to a. Ldlt has gone through its developmental phase and become an established life saving procedure.

Either the left or right lobe of your liver may be used in donation depending on the size of the recipient. Te md medical director of the adult liver transplant. The growing disparity between the number of liver transplant candidates and the supply of deceased donor organs has motivated the development of living donor liver transplantation ldlt. Surgical techniques and innovations in living related liver transplantation.

The donor s remaining liver regrows and returns to its normal size volume and capacity within a couple of months after the surgery. Over the last two decades the operation has been markedly improved by innovations rendering modern results comp. Tanaka k yamaoka y kumada k et al. The widening gap between the growing number of liver transplant candidates and the supply of deceased donor organs became a strong motivation for the development of living donor liver transplantation ldlt.

A living donor liver transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased or malfunctioning liver and replaces it with a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor.