Invited commentary on: Venous outflow reconstruction using polytetrafluoroethylene graft in right lobe living donor liver transplantation: A single center study

In July 1989, the first successful living donor liver transplant (LDLT) was performed by Strong et  al and provided an alternative for pediatric patients with end stage liver disease awaiting deceased donor transplantation.1 Approximately 5 years later, at Shinshu University in Japan, the first adult LDLT was performed in a 53-year-old woman with primary biliary cirrhosis using a left lobe graft from the patient’s 25-year-old son.2 To address the issue of graft size, which limited use of the smaller left lobe graft in adults, the first right lobe adult LDLT, was subsequently performed by Lo et al in 1996 at the University of Hong Kong.
Source: Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research