Living donor transplantation and other modern methods of liver treatment are usually based on computed tomography (CT). Our work is motivated by two following clinical application. First is living-related liver transplantation (LRLT). It is the case when healthy voluntary donor gives a part of his liver to treated person. Second are oncologic resections. It is treatment for patient with liver c...

the liver transplantation program was established at shiraz nemazee hospital in 1993. shortage of cadaver organ supply due to various social and legal issues urged us to develop a living-related liver transplantation (lrlt) program. so far 7 (6 males, 1 female) living-related liver transplantations have been performed at this center. the mean age of patients was 8.21 years (+/- 4.16), with a ra...

OBJECTIVE To assess donor morbidity, recipient outcome, and changing trends during the past decade in donor nephrectomy for living-donor kidney transplantation. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective review at an academic tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS We reviewed 201 consecutive living-donor kidney transplantations performed between January 1988 and June 1997. INTERVENTION Donor nephr...

Living donor liver graft can be used for the first or second liver transplantation. The timing of retransplantation also should be stratified as 2 types according to the reoperation timing. Combination of these two classifications results in 6 types of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)-associated retransplantation. However, late retransplantation to LDLT might have not been performed in...

Studies on 34 renal transplant's (in patients who received kidneys from living related donors) and 19 renal transplants (in patients who received kidneys from cadaver donors) have now been completed. Sixty-two percent of the living related kidney recipients became infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV) and 79% of the cadaver kidney recipients became infected. Of the group receiving kidneys from li...