Videos 19.1 Laparoscopic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy 19.2 Open Living Donor Left Hepatectomy Introduction Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) has emerged and is now established as a valuable practice to mitigate the shortage of cadaveric liver grafts. Challenges relate to…
Introduction The successful clinical introduction of intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in the 1990s fueled a great interest in the management of patients with short gut syndrome (SGS) and gastrointestinal failure. With the early restricted utilization of transplantation as a rescue…
Orthotopic liver transplantation (LTX) has become an accepted means for the treatment of end-stage liver disease in both adults and children. The history of pediatric LTX starts with the first human attempt at transplantation by Dr. Starzl in 1963. The…