Living Donor Liver Transplant Technique

Surgical techniques used in adult living donor liver.

Living donor liver transplant technique.

Today liver transplantation lt represents the treatment of choice for end stage liver disease and represents the culmination of a long history of innovations made by liver surgeons based on hemorrhage control appreciating the occurrence of regeneration and understanding the liver anatomy 1 resective and transplant liver surgery influenced each other. If you become a living donor you help free up a liver for someone else on the waiting list. About 40 to 70 of the donor s liver is removed for transplantation. Either the left or right lobe of your liver may be used in donation depending on the size of the recipient.

The major concern has been the ability to resect a graft of adequate size without subjecting the donor to undue risk. And a successful transplant gives the person who gets your new liver more years of life. Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with the healthy liver from another person liver transplantation is a treatment option for end stage liver disease and acute liver failure although availability of donor organs is a major limitation the most common technique is orthotopic transplantation in which the native liver is removed and. In an adult to adult ldlt a segment of liver equivalent to 60 of the total liver mass is.

The continuing shortage of organs for adult transplant recipients has generated enthusiasm for adult to adult living donor liver transplantation ldlt. This donated segment of the liver is then immediately placed in the recipient in the next operating room. A living donor liver transplant is a procedure in which a living person donates a portion of his or her liver to another person. Introduction and historical notes.

In living liver donor surgery the donor and the recipient are placed in side by side operating rooms. Techniques of liver transplant surgery the techniques involved in ldlt and ddlt are in principal the same. During living liver donation surgeons remove a portion of your liver through an incision in the abdomen. A surgeon removes a part of the donor s liver typically the right half.