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Historical Background The first attempted and successful living donor liver transplants were undertaken in 1989 in the in Brazil and Australia. In the face of a scarcity of deceased donor liver grafts, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) took a preeminent…

Living-donor hepatectomy is a major surgical operation performed on a healthy person only for the benefit of a recipient who requires liver transplantation (see Chapters 105 , 125 , and 128 ). In 1989 Strong (1999) performed donor left hepatectomy…