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Orthotopic full size liver transplantation has become an accepted form of treatment for patients with endstage liver disease and can therefore be considered standard therapy. Survival rates at one and two years reported by the European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) are 83% for patients transplanted since 1994. In a few centers results are even better and exceed 90% patient survival at one year. As a consequence of these results indications were broadened, which led to an increase in patients awaiting such a transplant.
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Königsrainer, A., Ladurner, R., Margreiter, R. (2002). Split liver transplantation: what has been done and where is the need. In: Rogiers, X., Bismuth, H., Busuttil, R.W., Broering, D.C., Azoulay, D. (eds) Split liver transplantation. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57523-5_2
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