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Transplantation of the right hepatic lobe from an adult living donor to an adult recipient is rapidly emerging as an effective treatment for selected patients with end-stage liver disease.^1,2,3,4 The development of living-donor liver transplantation in the United States over the past five years has been driven by the shortage of donor organs for transplantation. In the past decade, the number of patients awaiting liver transplantation has increased by a factor of almost eight, from 1676 in 1991 to 14,710 in 1999 (Figure 1). During the same period, the number of liver transplantations increased by only about 50 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

History of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation

Selection of Donors and Recipients

Surgical Technique

Outcomes of Recipients and Donors

Future Issues and Controversies

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From the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (J.F.T., G.T.E.) and the Division of Transplant Surgery (M.W., I.K.), University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Trotter at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Ave., B-154, Denver, CO 80262, or at james.trotter@uchsc.edu.

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Dixon D. J., Abbey S. E., Fan S.-T., Lo C.-M., Liu C.-L., Shackleton C. R., Colquhoun S. D., Vierling J. M., Potts M., Howard T. K., Seek A. L., Sullivan M. A., Pomfret E. A., Trotter J. F., Surman O. S.
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