Introduction. The first liver transplantation (LT) was attempted in 1963 [], and the first successful LT was performed in 1967 by Dr. Starzl at the University of Pittsburgh [2,3].However, 1-year survival following LT remained below 20% during the 1970s, until immunosuppression with cyclosporine was introduced in the early 1980s [3,4].Improved surgical and graft preservation techniques and ....