EDITORIAL

Editors’ Commentary: The Asian Contribution to Living Donor Liver Transplantation Anthony P. Monaco1,3 and Peter J. Morris2 he Editors of Transplantation are pleased to publish this colloquium/supplement titled Living Donor Liver Transplantation: The Asian Perspective, which highlights the enormous contributions of Asian transplant centers to LDLT. The Asian transplant community has pioneered LDLT and played a critical role in establishing it as a major transplant therapy for end-stage liver disease through continued innovation, development, revision, and improvement of LDLT surgical techniques and clinical management. We are honored to welcome Professor Chao-Long Chen of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan as Guest Editor of the supplement. Professor Chen is a pioneer liver transplant surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplantation in Asia in 1984. We are indebted to him for his extraordinary efforts in spear-heading, organizing and editing the supplement, which is compromised of 18 presentations delivered during the 2013 Asian Summit in Living Donor Liver Transplantation held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on January 12, 2013. The proceedings of this meeting are published in colloquium format as a single citable multiauthor reference made up of 18 sections. Each section of the colloquium represents a detailed compilation of the specific LDLT experience from major transplant centers in Taiwan, China,

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The authors declare no funding or conflicts of interest. 1 The Transplant Center, Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 2 Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, Royal College of Surgeons, Oxford, United Kingdom. 3 Address correspondence to: Anthony P. Monaco, M.D., The Transplant Center, 110 Francis Street, 7th floor, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail: [email protected] Copyright * 2014 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISSN: 0041-1337/14/9708-S1 DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000157

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Korea, and India involving various LDLT topics including evaluation of living liver donors, use of LDLT in treatment of HCC, management of portal venous complications in adult and pediatric LDLT, surgical and endoscopic treatment of biliary complications, application of LDLT to highrisk recipients, antiviral therapies to prevent recurrence of hepatitis B and C post LDLT, strategies for antibody desensitization for ABO-incompatible adult LDLT, the utility of a paired-exchange LDLT, the potential role of laparoscopic minimally invasive donor hepatectomy in LDLT, and analysis of the possible role of adult LDLT in the treatment of overseas patients. The authors of each section along with their institutional affiliations and addresses are included with the sections. A corresponding author(s) for each individual section is also identified. The Editors of Transplantation are gratified to publish this colloquium/supplement as a single monograph reporting the impressive and important results with LDLT achieved by these experienced and expert transplant centers. We feel that the information contained herein will be of great interest to members of the global transplant community involved in this specialized area of clinical transplantation. The Editors acknowledge that the material presented is the record of meeting presentations involving individual analysis of clinical experience including unchallenged opinions and impressions. The Editors state that every effort has been made to identify and delete any bias error and misinformation. The Editors also aver that the individual section manuscripts were not sent out for standard peer review by the Editorial Review Board. Finally, although we are enthusiastic to present this compiled material for our readers’ information and evaluation, we state the opinions and assertions of the authors are there alone and no agreement on the part of the Editors or publishers of Transplantation should be assumed or implied.

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