[HIGHLIGHTS] In the operating room of the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif, a pioneer in liver transplantation for 30 years

The hepato-biliary center (CHB) of the Paul-Brousse AP-HP hospital is the leading liver transplant center in France. It was at the CHB that a child with an adult liver was transplanted in 1981, a first in the world.

The first transplant of three patients from a single graft was carried out in 1999, and a year later the first living donor transplant program took place. At its head, Professor Daniel Cherqui, pioneer in non-invasive intervention by laparoscopy, a procedure “less risky, with a small incision and a small scar”