Adult living donor liver transplantation

The number of adult living-donor liver transplantations is rapidly increasing world wide. Donor selection, technical innovation, and postoperative management are important for donor safety. The adequacy of graft size is the major limitation and the most critical issue in adult living-donor liver transplantation. The outcome of this surgery is significantly influenced by the pretransplant patient condition and the original patient disease. Further study is needed to clarify the indications for and timing of living-donor transplantation for adult recipients.