Dr. Chih-Chi Wang from the Department of Surgery at Kaohsiung Hospital, Taiwan, presented at the ESOT Congress, Prague, their experience with dual grafts for living donor liver transplantation.
They presented a prospective study including 150 adult LDLT and 5 dual graft transplantations. According to their results, 2 recipients received 1 right lobe and 1 left lobe, and the other two received two left lobes.
They concluded that dual graft transplantation provides sufficient volume in the recipient without jeopardizing donor safety. They also added that it should be considered and performed by an experienced center when a single donor is rejected based on volumetry requirements.
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