 The first living related renal transplant was performed in China in 1972; the first allogeneic bone marrow transplantation was successfully executed in an acute leukaemia patient.The first recorded clinical liver transplant from a living donor in China took place in 1995, seven years after the world's first was performed in São Paulo, Brazil.Between January 2001 and October 2003, 45 patients received living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) at five different hospitals.