Editorial on“Is there any correlation between liver graft regeneration and recipient’s pretransplant skeletal muscle mass?”

Liver regeneration is necessary for recovery following liver transplantation.The liver’s regenerative capacity can,to a certain extent,alter the critical point between failure and eventual recovery of the transplanted liver(1).Poor liver function and failure of liver regeneration are most likely to be the direct result of liver injury factors.However,in living donor liver transplantation(LDLT),the impact of these factors on liver regeneration is diminished by standardized surgical procedures and detailed donor evaluation and selection.In the context of severe liver disease,the recipient’s state is more important for liver regeneration(2).