Open AccessSafety of Donors in Live Donor Liver Transplantation Using Right Lobe Grafts
Author(s) -
Sheung–Tat Fan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archives of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3644
pISSN - 0004-0010
DOI - 10.1001/archsurg.135.3.336
Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , surgery , transplantation , steatosis , lobe , anatomy
Right lobe donation was advocated for adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation but the safety of the donor is still a major concern. We hypothesize that right lobe donation is safe if the lowest limit of volume of liver remnant that can support donor survival is known.