Leaning to the Left Increasing the Donor Pool by Using the Left Lobe, Outcomes of the Largest Single-Center North American Experience of Left Lobe Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation

摘要

Objective: Centers offering adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) mostly use right lobe grafts due to fears of providing recipients with insufficient hepatic volume, and the technical challenges presented by using left lobe grafts (LLGs). LLGs therefore represent approximately 5% of adult LDLTs performed in the United States. Here we present the largest North American experience with the use of LLG for adult LDLT.