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Anesthetic Aspects of Living Donor Hepatectomy

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Led by Thomas E. Starzl, the era of liver transplantation began in 1963 at the University of Colorado, and by 1967, the first patient transplanted by this group survived more than a year [1]. However, not until further advances of knowledge, experience, and surgical technique in the field of split-liver technique allowed the transplantation of one donor graft into two recipients [2], was living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) attempted. First successfully performed in 1989 by Broelsch et al. [3] at the University of Chicago, a young girl born with biliary atresia was the recipient of her mother’s left lobe of liver. Since that time, experience in the field has grown to include adult-to-adult living liver transplantation.

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Kahlon, N., Brentjens, T. (2012). Anesthetic Aspects of Living Donor Hepatectomy. In: Wagener, G. (eds) Liver Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5167-9_26

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