Abstract Background The French transplant governing system defined “Rescue”(the so-
called “Hors Tour”) livers as those livers which were declined for the five top-listed patients …

Many centers require a minimal graft to body weight ratio (GBWR)≥ 0.8 as an arbitrary
threshold to proceed with right-lobe living donor liver transplantation (RL-LDLT), and there is …

The major challenge currently facing liver transplantation is the performance of a greater
number of liver transplants, which has been fueled by the large and growing disparity …

Objective To report the authors' experience with living donor liver transplantation in adults
using right lobe liver grafts, performed by a modified technique. Summary Background Data …

Since the first living donor liver transplantations at the end of the 1980s, this transplantation
technique has developed as an established tool within the modern transplantation medicine …

The number of patients needing liver transplantation greatly exceeds the number of organs
that can be obtained from cadavers. Living-donor liver transplantation has therefore …

The utilization of partial-liver grafts for transplantation of adults represents an evolution from
strategies designed to increase pediatric organ supply that have been justified by increased …

SLT addresses donor shortages by facilitating the transplant of two recipients from the same
donor liver. By using careful donor and recipient selection criteria, SLT can achieve …

The feasibility of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is restricted by the
adequacy of the graft size. A left lobe graft from a relatively small donor will not meet the …

Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been established as a successful
alternative to help solve the serious shortage problem of deceased donor (DD) grafts. LDLT …