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Liver transplantation

Guest Editors:
Sami Akbulut: Inonu University, Turkey
Gianluca Rompianesi: Federico II University Hospital, Italy



BMC Surgery is presenting our Collection on 'Liver transplantation', with a focus on tracking the recent developments that improve surgical safety and success rates, while reducing the postoperative complications. We highlight research and Review articles on topics including but not limited to adopting minimally invasive techniques in practice, improvements in liver preservation techniques, intraoperative hemodynamic management, refinement of surgical procedures, and perioperative infection risk control.

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Sami Akbulut: Inonu University, Turkey

Prof Akbulut completed his General Surgery residency at Baskent University and received specialized training in liver transplantation under Prof Mehmet Haberal. He furthered his career at Diyarbakır Research & Training Hospital. In 2012, he joined the International College of Surgeons (FICS) and followed with the American College of Surgeons (FACS) in 2013. He joined Inonu University Liver Transplant Institute in 2014 with a fellowship and attained a professorship in 2020. He recently earned a PhD in Public Health and appointed as an associate professor in the same field. With over 500 hepatectomies (donor hepatectomy, tumour surgery, benign liver disease, etc.) conducted, Prof Akbulut specializes in gastrointestinal, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder surgery for malignant and benign cases, including living donor hepatectomy. Consecutively over the past two years, he has achieved remarkable success, securing a position on Stanford University's list of the world's most influential scientists.

Gianluca Rompianesi: Federico II University Hospital, Italy                                                                                                                                  
Prof Rompianesi is currently a consultant  Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and Transplant Surgeon and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Federico II University Hospital of Naples, Italy. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery of the divisions of Transplantation and of HPB surgery and a Board Member of the Young Professionals of Transplantation of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Prof Rompianesi worked as a Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB and Transplant Surgery at Oxford University Hospitals, where also served as Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery at the University of Oxford, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Royal Free Hospital, and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. Prof Rompianesi's special interests lie in the fields of living donor transplantation and minimally invasive HPB surgery, with particular emphasis on the application of novel technologies in surgery.


About the Collection

BMC Surgery is presenting our Collection on 'Liver transplantation'.

Liver transplantation is one of the most effective therapies for end-stage liver disease. It has rapidly developed in recent years, while there are still many difficulties and challenges. The surgery is very complicated and time-consuming. To ensure a successful surgery and to improve the patient's outcome, surgeons need to solve many problems such as extensive surgical trauma and postoperative infection.

In order to track the recent developments to improve safety of the surgery and success rate and to reduce postoperative complications as well, we present a collection on liver transplantation. We highlight research on topics including but not limited to:

  • Adopting minimally invasive techniques in practice.
  • Improvements in liver preservation techniques.
  • Intraoperative hemodynamic management.
  • Refinement of surgical procedures.
  • Perioperative infection risk control.


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  1. In the field of liver disease treatment, liver transplantation (LT) has become an effective option for end-stage liver disease. However, issues such as immune rejection and graft damage remain important factor...

    Authors: Yiwu Zhong, Xu Hu, Xiaoping Li, Yinbiao Qiao, Haoyu Li, Shijie Zhou, Shusen Zheng and Jianhui Li
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2025 25:203
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Hepatic resection (HR) and liver transplantation (LT) are potentially curative treatments for Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to analyze the survival of patients with HCC and indicati...

    Authors: Rafael Soares Pinheiro, Gilton Marques Fonseca, Wellington Andraus, Fabricio Ferreira Coelho, Vinicius Rocha-Santos, Jaime Arthur Pirola Kruger, Daniel R. Waisberg, Vagner Jeismann, Rodrigo Bronze de Martino, Fabio Ferrari Makdissi, Liliana Ducatti, Rubens Macedo Arantes Junior, Regis Otaviano Franca Bezerra, Joel Avancini Rocha-Filho, Manoel de Souza Rocha, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’Albuquerque…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2025 25:166
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in Budd-Chiari Syndrome (BCS)-related liver cirrhosis is quite technically challenging due to the difficult handling of an enlarged and congested liver along with the ris...

    Authors: Kourosh Kazemi, Alireza Shamsaeefar, Hamed Nikoupour, Sahar Sohrabi Nazari, Erfan Sheikhbahaei, Ali Esparham, Mehran Jafari, Mohammad Eslamian and Saman Nikeghbalian
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2025 25:106
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. In living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), maintaining hepatic arterial flow is critical for graft survival. Alternative methods are required when the recipient’s hepatic artery is unsuitable due to extensi...

    Authors: Hosam Hamed, Mohamed Elshobary, Tarek Salah, Ahmad M. Sultan, El-sayed Abou El-Magd, Ahmed M. Elsabbagh, Ahmed Shehta, Mohamed Abdulrazek, Waleed Elsarraf, Mohamed A. Elmorshedi, Mostafa Abdelkhalek, Usama Shiha, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek and Mohamed Abdel Wahab
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2025 25:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Liver transplantation (LT) is a well-established method applied for the treatment of various liver diseases, including primary and secondary malignancies, as well as acute liver failure triggered by different ...

    Authors: Łukasz Masior, Maciej Krasnodębski, Piotr Smoter, Marcin Morawski, Konrad Kobryń, Wacław Hołówko, Wojciech Figiel, Marek Krawczyk, Tadeusz Wróblewski and Michał Grąt
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2024 24:224
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of liver Transplants (LT) with retrograde reperfusion on early postoperative recovery of liver function and its risk factors.

    Authors: Jiajia Shen, Ming Wang, Chengkai Yang, Qiucheng Cai, Yi Jiang and Xiaojin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2024 24:174
    Content type: Research Published on: