Introduction
Living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was developed to overcome the shortage of available cadaveric livers for transplantation (Inomata 2002, Kasahara et al. 2002, Tanaka 2003, Northup & Berg 2005, Surman et al. 2005).
When LDLT was first introduced in 1989 (Raia et al. 1989), it was considered to be a solution to the shortage of donors for