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Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, MD

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

His surgical activity is mainly focused on liver surgery including liver transplantation, and he has performed hundreds of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Also, he has been the expert of microscopic surgery for hepatic artery reconstruction. His clinical and scientific interests are directed towards the field of LDLT, and has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded for his scientific activity at national meetings. He has performed surgeries not only in Japan, but in several other Asian countries to introduce LDLT. He is board member of the scientific committee of the Japanese society of surgery, and transplantation.

Articles Published in the Annals of Translational Medicine

ABO incompatibility as a possible risk factor for hepatic artery thrombosis in living donor liver transplantation