In spite of early adoption of the brain death legislation, and all efforts at promoting deceased
donation, various social, economic and cultural factors have acted as road blocks to the …

Decades of experience supports LDLT as a favorable strategy to reduce waitlist mortality.
The multiple regenerative pathways of hepatocytes and other hepatic cells justify the …

Purpose Portal vein (PV) reconstruction is a key factor for successful living-donor liver
transplantation (LDLT). Anatomical variations of right PV (RPV) are encountered among …

Donor anatomy is an essential part of donor selection and operative planning in living donor
liver transplantation. In this study, variations of hilar structures, and the effects of variant …

Background: In the United States, the discrepancy between organ availability and need has
persisted despite changes in allocation, innovations in preservation, and policy initiatives …

Background: Aborted donor hepatectomy (ADH) during any stage of living donor
hepatectomy (LDH) is a rare event. We describe our experience and discuss the lessons …

Background Portal vein (PV) reconstruction is a crucial factor in successful living donor liver
transplantation (LDLT). In LDLT using the right liver grafts with anatomic PV variations, we …

Two versus 1 venous reconstruction is sometimes required for Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic
and Transplantation surgery. V-shape venoplasty is considered to be useful knack of …

Background To share our experience with hollow viscus migration of artificial vascular grafts
(AVG) used for venous reconstruction of the right anterior sector in living donor liver …

Portal vein anatomic variations are common in living donor liver transplantation. Portal vein
fenestration, in which a segment of a vessel divides into at least two channels that reunite …