Liver transplantation is a surgical technique designed for the treatment of patients suffering from end stage liver disease and who would not otherwise have a chance to survive. After the first liver transplantation, performed by Thomas Earl Starzl on the first of March, 1963 in Denver, Colorado, thousands of procedures have been performed all around the world. 5300 liver transplantations were performed in the USA during 2002 and 5142 in Europe. The European liver transplantation registry has 93634 transplantations registered until December 2009 (www.eltr.org).