Living Donor Liver Transplantation Surgical Techniques And Innovations

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.

Living donor liver transplantation surgical techniques and innovations.

A living donor liver transplant is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the liver from a healthy living person is removed and placed into someone whose liver is no longer working properly. The donor s remaining liver regrows and returns to its normal size volume and capacity within a couple of months after the surgery. Tanaka k yamaoka y kumada k et al. Te md medical director of the adult liver transplant.

On the other hand liver transplantation including live donation has become more and more common and surgical techniques have significantly advanced over the past ten years. 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. Lee hepato biliary surgery and liver transplantation asan medical center university of ulsan college of medicine ulsan university seoul republic of korea corresponding author. Over the last two decades the operation has been markedly improved by innovations rendering modern results comp.

The liver regenerates almost immediately after surgery and will have reached its near normal size by 6 8 weeks or so says helen s. During living liver donation surgeons remove a portion of your liver through an incision in the abdomen. 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. The introduction of microvascular surgery to hepatic artery reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation its surgical advantages compared with conventional procedures.

K tanaka s uemoto y tokunaga. 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. Due to the liver s unique ability to regenerate the partial livers of both the donor and recipient soon grow into complete organs. A review of surgical technique and current challenges to expand indication of patients s g.

Either the left or right lobe of your liver may be used in donation depending on the size of the recipient. But until 1970 liver transplant surgery remained experimental with a one. The first human liver transplantation was first performed in 1963 by dr. About 40 to 70 of the donor s liver is removed for transplantation.

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