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1Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. egawa@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|April 7, 2011
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Minimizing donor risks during living donor liver transplantation is important. A recent study recommends that a right lobe graft with the middle hepatic vein is obtained from donors <50 years old who have an intact segment four drainage vein and remnant liver volume >30%.
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