Liver Transplantation in Taiwan

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(1) Tang Pei-chun and Nancy Liu, Singapore, Taiwan hospitals plan
partnership in liver surgery. Central News Agency, Nov. 27, 2010.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201011270018&Type=aLIV

(2) American gets liver transplant in Taiwan. Medical Tourism News, June 10,
2009.
http://www.treatmentabroad.com/medical-tourism/news/?EntryId82=135357

(3) Chen S-C et al, Attitude Toward Living Donor Liver Transplantation in
Taiwan.   Transplantation Proceedings, 38: 2108-2110 (2006).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ0-4KWYRVV-1T&_user=2403224&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1560929541&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000057194&_versio

My comment: The first liver transplantation was done
in US in 1963 (Thomas Starzl, Univ of Colorado)
in Taiwan in 1983 (Chang Gung memorial Hospital--王長庚 being 王永慶's
father);
in Japan in 1989;
in Singapore in 1990.

For that of Taiwan and Japan, see

Leo C. Ginns, A. Benedict Cosimi and Peter J. Morris, Transplantation.
Blackwell (1998), at page 890.
http://books.google.com/books?id=_deOFr8wv_8C&pg=PA890&lpg=PA890&dq=first+liver+transplantation+japan&source=bl&ots=bx-Q6DQYiF&sig=iWI3u0GFpi45wPKv3Lq4SUHAphM&hl=en&ei=T3H0TJvyDoL68Aafx7zABQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepag
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