Abstract:Due to the shortage of organs for transplantation, different surgical alternatives have been developed, as split liver transplantation (SLT) and living-donor liver transplantation. In classical SLT, the liver of a cadaveric donor is divided and two allografts are obtained, one corresponding to segments 2-3 and the other to segments 1, 4–8. In order to produce two grafts from one liver for two adult recipients, splitting of the liver can create a right graft including segments 5–8 and a left graft with segments… Show more
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