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by Sheung Tat Fan, SBS, MBBS, MS, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS ad hominem (Edinburgh), FCSHK, FHKAM(Surg), 142 pp, with illus, ISBN 962-582-115-5, Hong Kong, Takungpao Publishing Co, Ltd, 2007.

Andrew M. Cameron, MD, PhD, Reviewer

Arch Surg. 2008;143(11):1131.

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In the United States there are currently 17 000 patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation. Only about 6000 transplants are performed each year, with resultant high mortality on the waiting list (another patient awaiting liver transplantation dies every 12 minutes). Multiple efforts to expand the donor pool are concurrently under way, including the use of living donors. For pediatric recipients this is accomplished by use of an adult donor's left lateral segment. An adult recipient, however, typically requires a donor's entire right lobe, a procedure pioneered by Sheung Tat Fan and colleagues in Hong Kong in 1996. Since that time, the group from Queen Mary Hospital has performed more than 300 living donor liver transplantations using the right lobe with outstanding results. This book describes the details of that story in more than 130 beautifully illustrated pages.

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