ABSTRACT
Living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was first reported in 1989 by Raia et al. (1) and in 1990 by Strong et al. (2). As size constraints limit the overall deceased donor population for small children, LDLT quickly developed in order to reduce the morbidity and mortality of an extended waiting time in this patient population; successful centers were established in the United States (3), Europe (4), and Japan (5).
