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Thank you for inviting us to comment the review article entitled “ Use of robotics in liver donor right hepatectomy ” by Chen PD et al . (1), published on HBSN journal. In their interesting paper, the authors stated that despite the fact that minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been documented with safety and feasibility in complex liver surgery the progress has been slow in regard to the application of MIS in donor graft hepatectomy.

We read with great pleasure the article entitled “ Use of robotics in liver donor right hepatectomy ” by Chen et al ., which was published in last year’s October issue of Hepatobiliary Surgery Nutrition (1). This review of robotic hepatobiliary surgery focused on the brief history of minimally-invasive surgery (MIS) in the field of living-related liver transplantation (LRLT).

Despite in the era of liver transplantation (LT) widely performed as an established curative treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the scarcity of liver donors has still been a well-nigh insurmountable barrier to access of LT.