Crucial issues of hepatic artery reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation: our experience with 133 cases at Dar El-Fouad Hospital, Egypt.

Hepatic artery (HA) reconstruction is a crucial step in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). However, many important aspects specific to this challenging step are still inadequately documented. From August 2001 through March 2007, we performed a total of 133 cases of LDLT at Dar El-Fouad Hospital.