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The bile ducts and vascular conduits of the harvested grafts from living donors are incomplete, thin, and short. The biliary and vascular reconstruction of living donor transplantation is therefore too technically demanding to perform by simple extrapolation of the techniques…
In 1993 the first successful adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation was performed using a left liver graft. Until then, liver transplantations from living donors had been performed only for pediatric recipients. Because of the overwhelming shortage of liver grafts from…