Abstract
Using grafts from brain-dead donors for liver transplantation is a very controversial subject in Japan and those candidates for transplantation who have received livers outside of Japan have been harshly criticized.
Under these circumstances, a partial liver transplantation is an attractive method in terms of preserving the donor's life, freshness of the graft and easier donor availability. In other words, for adults with noncancerous incurable liver disease the donor's left lobe can be transplanted after the recipient has had a left lobectomy, and for children with biliary atresia the whole liver and vena cava can be replaced with a parent's left lobe and iliac vein.
Our report concerns the procedures of orthotopic partial liver transplantation for canines and humans.
