Asian contribution to living donor liver transplantation

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Sung-Gyu Lee

Abstract

Although the shortage of brain-dead donor organs is a worldwide problem, the situation is especially serious in Asia because of various cultural and social reasons, and cadaveric organ donation remains below 5 per million population per year. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) could provide an alternative for liver graft for patients with acute and chronic end-stage liver disease. This article introduces the important contributions to the development of LDLT by the leading Asian liver transplantation centers. The first successful adult LDLT using a left-lobe graft was reported by Makuuchi et al. from Japan in 1994. To overcome the barrier of graft-size matching for adult patients with use of a left-lobe graft, a trial of adult LDLT using a right-lobe graft with middle hepatic vein was reported with satisfactory outcome by Fan et al. from Hong Kong in 1997. Despite the impressive results of right-lobe LDLT, considerable debate persists concerning donor safety. Lee et al. from Korea initiated modified right-lobe liver grafting with interposition vein grafts to drain anterior segment and two left-lobe liver grafting to overcome graft-size insufficiency and to ensure donor safety in 1999 and 2000, respectively. In addition t...Continue Reading

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