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The field of liver transplantation has undergone remarkable advances in the past two decades. An essentially experimental procedure in the early 1980s, a liver transplant is now the treatment of choice for patients with acute and chronic liver failure. Patient survival at 1 year posttransplant has increased from 30 % in the early 1980s to more than 85 % at present. The major reasons for this dramatic increase include refined surgical and preservation techniques, better immunosuppressive protocols, more effective treatment of infections, and improved care during the critical perioperative period. Yet a liver transplant remains a major undertaking, with the potential for complications affecting every major organ system.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Montefiore, 3459 Fifth Avenue, 7 South, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Mark L. Sturdevant MD & Christopher B. Hughes

  2. Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware Street SE, Mayo Mail Code 195, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    William D. Payne

  3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Connie Frank Transplant Center at the University of California, San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Seventh Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Chris E. Freise

  4. Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Montefiore, 3459 Fifth Avenue, 7 South, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Abhinav Humar MD

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7.1 Electronic Supplementary Material

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Benching the liver from a deceased donor (Humar) (WMV 63301 kb)

Deceased donor liver transplant: adult recipient (Humar) (WMV 171609 kb)

In-situ split of the deceased donor liver for adult/pediatric recipients (John Renz, Hasan Yersiz, Ronald Busutill) (MPG 421110 kb)

In-situ split of the deceased donor liver for two adult recipients (Humar) (WMV 142803 kb)

Adult to adult living donor liver transplant using the right lobe: donor procedure (Humar/Sturdevant) (WMV 181647 kb)

Adult to adult living donor liver transplant using the right lobe: recipient procedure (Humar) (WMV 258336 kb)

Adult to adult living donor liver transplant using the left lobe: recipient procedure (Chris Friese) (WMV 446707 kb)

Pediatric liver transplant using a left lateral segment graft (George Mazariegos, Kyle Soltys) (WMV 113787 kb)

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Sturdevant, M.L., Hughes, C.B., Payne, W.D., Freise, C.E., Humar, A. (2015). Liver Transplantation. In: Humar, A., Sturdevant, M. (eds) Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4775-6_7

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