[The demographic, perioperative and mortality characteristics of the Hungarian Liver Transplant Program].

Introductions: The authors summarize the demographic, morbidity and mortality characteristics of the Hungarian Liver Transplant Program.

Aims: They evaluate the changes and development, that has taken place with regard to indications, recipient population and characteristics, operation technique, and peroperative patient management.

Method: In order to present the development, data are compared between two time periods (before and after 1999).

[Percutaneous portal vein embolization before major hepatic resection].

Major liver resection cannot be performed when the remaining liver mass is too small. Preoperative embolization of the portal vein (PVE) helps to increase the volume of the non-tumorous liver segments, and patients' liver function will remain stable postoperatively. CT, MRI, CTAP examinations help to decide about surgery.