Reduced-size Liver Transplantation

Mastery of reduced-size liver transplantation and its variants has become essential for the practice of paediatric liver transplantation in an era of progressive scarcity of donor organs. This text reviews the development and application of these techniques.

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Mastery of reduced-size liver transplantation and its variants has become essential for the practice of paediatric liver transplantation in an era of progressive scarcity of donor organs. In this volume, the authors review the development and clinical application of these techniques from the perspective of extensive clinical experience, both with liver transplantation and haepatobiliary surgery. The text explains the evolution of reduced-size liver transplantation, outlining relevant anatomy and physiology, presents specific surgical techniques and provides an in-depth review of the results of complications of these procedures. It also considers the future of this area of surgery.