Recent evolution of living donor liver transplantation at Kyoto University: How to achieve a one-year overall survival rate of 99%?

Previously, living donor liver transplantation was considered as a “high-risk, high-return” medical treatment due to the relatively high short-term mortality. It is our task to change “high-risk, high-return” into a “low-risk, high-return” situation. In this review article, the recent evolutions in living donor liver transplantation for both donors and recipients at Kyoto University such as portal vein pressure modulation, hybrid donor...