Surgical Technique for Right Lobe Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Without Venovenous Bypass or Portocaval Shunting and With Duct-to-Duct Biliary Reconstruction

Abstract

Adult living donor liver transplantation can be performed safely and may help alleviate the organ shortage. Neither venovenous bypass nor portocaval shunting is necessary to perform the procedure, and modifications to both the donor and recipient hepatectomy procedures may allow biliary reconstruction to be performed by a direct duct-to-duct anastomosis in selected cases.