The article by Humar et al. in the March 2004 issue of Liver Transplantationis interesting in
its comparison of the degree of liver regeneration, as measured by computed tomography
volumetry, between living donors, living donor right-lobe recipients and split-liver recipients.
1 Their results show a significantly higher percentage increase in liver volume in left-lobe
split-liver recipients (119.7%; P. 0006), in right-lobe split-liver recipients (113.6%; P. 01), and
in right-lobe living donor recipients (103.9%; P. 0002) as compared to right-lobe living …