 Hi, I'm Dr. Gautam Kumar. I'm the Consentant Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon here at Manipal Group of Hospitals, Bangalore. Liver transplantation as a procedure is relatively new. It was first performed in 1967 by Dr. Stazil. It entails removal of old, cirrhotic liver, which is a chronic liver, one affected with chronic liver disease and completely replace it with a new, healthy liver which either can come from a diseased, brain-dead donor or a living donor giving about 60% of their liver. As a liver transplant procedure itself is quite a complicated procedure. It requires at least for cadaveric transplantation. It requires the patient needs to be evaluated, one, and then once they get registered in the list, they have to wait till they get an organ suitable for them from a cadaveric donor. So once the donor is available and once we do the surgery, it usually takes around two weeks for recovery and initial three to four days in ICU. With living donor liver transplantation, it is more of a planned procedure in which one of the relatives gives part of their liver about 60% of liver is given and the beautiful thing about liver is it regenerates. So the donor liver given to the patient grows to the normal size and the liver which is left behind in the donor grows to the normal size in two to four weeks. With living donor liver transplantation, it is more of a planned procedure and again it requires around two weeks of hospitalization.