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Liver Transplantation from Living Donors

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Surgery to recover a liver graft from a living donor is technically demanding, because it should secure both the safety of a donor and favorable clinical course of a recipient. Intraoperative ultrasonography is an indispensable tool to determine the optimal transection plane in the liver parenchyma and division points of the vessels (the hepatic artery, the portal vein, and the hepatic vein).

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Abbreviations

LDLT:

Living Donor Liver Transplantation

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  1. Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhiko Sugawara & Norihiro Kokudo

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  1. Kiyoshi Hasegawa
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Correspondence to Norihiro Kokudo .

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  1. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Milan, School of Medicine, Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano (Milano), Italy

    Guido Torzilli

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Hasegawa, K., Sugawara, Y., Kokudo, N. (2014). Liver Transplantation from Living Donors. In: Torzilli, G. (eds) Ultrasound-Guided Liver Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5510-0_11

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