 Hello, my name is Dr. Sanjay Goval, I am a senior consultant in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation at the Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. There are a number of different kinds but predominantly we are dealing with two kinds. One is what is called disease donor liver transplant and one is living donor liver transplant. Now a disease donor liver transplant is when the organ is taken from an individual who is brain dead which means that they have a severe brain injury from which they are actually dead but their heart continues to beat with the help of medication for a day or two after they are dead. Because the heart is continuing to beat the organs in the body may survive and therefore if the family of the patient is willing then we can harvest these organs and use them in patients who require these organs. In a living donor liver transplant it has to be a young relative of the donor who is willing to donate part of their liver usually the right lobe to the transplant recipient. So these are the predominant two major types of liver transplantation.