Seamless Introduction of a Purely Laparoscopic Full-Lobe Living Donor Hepatectomy Program in a North American Center.

Abstract

Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) has significantly evolved over the last two decades through improvements in approach, technique, and instrumentation and offers benefits over open liver surgery in terms of quicker recovery, early return to normal life, and cosmesis.1 However, the associated technical complexity of LLR coupled with overarching emphasis on donor safety have been the primary reasons for its delayed introduction into the domain of living liver donation.