[Splitting liver transplantation. Orthotopic liver transplantation in two recipients with a single donor liver].

Surgical reduction of donor livers to treat small children has been performed successfully in several centers. While this procedure improves the allocation of livers, it does not increase the organ supply. Since either lobe can be used in preparing a reduced-size graft, both lobes can become grafts, if acceptable vascular pedicles and bile ducts can be established for each one. We report and demonstrate a technique, in which a donor liver has been split and was used to transplant in two recipients.