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Split Liver Transplantation for Pediatric and Adult Recipients

Pediatric liver transplantation has driven technical innovations in surgery over the past 25 years. Early successful liver transplantation relied on the use of size-matched whole-liver grafts. This requirement tended to exclude small children of less than 10 kg from liver…

What Is Different Between Pediatric and Adult Liver Transplantation?

Introduction Clinical liver transplantation stems from the pioneering work of Professor Thomas Starlz in Denver, Colorado, where he attempted the first human liver transplantation on March 1, 1963. The recipient was a 3-year-old child with biliary atresia, who unfortunately died…