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The first reported performance of auxiliary liver transplantation (ALT) was in a dog by Welch in 1955. The auxiliary liver was placed in a heterotopic position in the right paravertebral gutter, with portal venous inflow directed from the iliac vein.…
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…