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Background and Aims:The European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) has collected data on liver transplant procedures performed in Europe since 1968.

We believe that VATS, in performing pulmonary lobectomy, is a safe and effective approach and it seems to give the same long-term results as open surgery. Now the main problems concern the indications that should be strictly respected and the conversion to thoracotomy which should be undertaken without hesitation when the anatomic or pathologic conditions are not favourable.

Endogenous opioids released during chronic liver injury participate in the process of liver fibrogenesis by stimulating HSC proliferation and collagen production in a paracrine manner.

The need to define, categorize and record complications when healthy individuals, such as living donors, undergo a major surgical procedure, such as a right hepatectomy, reflects the need for prompt and detailed reports of complications arising in this particular category of patient. Perioperative complications and post resection liver regeneration are not influenced by anatomic variations or patient demographic.