Right hepatic lobe living donation: A 12 years single Italian center experience

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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 14, 2013; 19(38): 6353-6359
Published online Oct 14, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i38.6353

Right hepatic lobe living donation: A 12 years single Italian center experience

Salvatore Gruttadauria, Duilio Pagano, Davide Cintorino, Antonio Arcadipane, Mario Traina, Riccardo Volpes, Angelo Luca, Giovanni Vizzini, Bruno Gridelli, Marco Spada

Salvatore Gruttadauria, Duilio Pagano, Davide Cintorino, Antonio Arcadipane, Mario Traina, Riccardo Volpes, Angelo Luca, Giovanni Vizzini, Bruno Gridelli, Marco Spada, Istituto Mediterraneo Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Italy, 90127 Palermo, Italy

Salvatore Gruttadauria, Davide Cintorino, Bruno Gridelli, Marco Spada, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States

Author contributions: Gruttadauria S was based on drafting the article critically for important intellectual content; Pagano D, Cintorino D, Arcadipane A, Traina M, Volpes R, Luca A and Vizzini G were also involved in editing the manuscript; Spada M and Gridelli B were involved for designing the study and giving the final approval of the version to be published.

Correspondence to: Salvatore Gruttadauria, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Istituto Mediterraneo Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Italy, Via Tricomi 1, 90127 Palermo, Italy. sgruttadauria@ismett.edu

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Received: July 17, 2013
Revised: August 21, 2013
Accepted: August 28, 2013
Published online: October 14, 2013

Core Tip

Core tip: A 12 years Italian single center experience is herein reported, focusing on the live donors who underwent conventional open right hepatectomies for adult to adult living related liver transplantations. In light of this experience we individualized three area of interest where we accomplished remarkable goals over this time period: donor nutritional status and rescue of steatotic donors; analysis of post hepatectomy liver regeneration; surgical technical developments.