Methods: A retrospective study was done during the year 2004 and 2005 from the 128 living related (LR) and deceased donors (DD). Data includes donors characteristics and acceptance rate for DD offered livers, recipients status post transplant follow up period and patient survival.
Results: A total of 122 cases from DD were consented for liver donation and 69 (56.55%) cases were retrieved with 55 (78%) from them were able to transplant with donor mean age of 30 years. As to LR donors, mostly were son, mother and father related with a mean age of 28.5 years with male/female ratio of 3/1 for a total of 73 transplants. The mean follow up period was 268 days and the mean stay in hospital post transplant was 28 days with 5 (4.2%) having a primary non-functioning graft. At the end of the follow up period, there were 113 (88%) active patients, 15 (11.7%) died while 111 (98.2%) doing well at home and 2 (1.8%) at the hospital. The patient survival at two years was 87%. The outcome of the liver transplantation in the kingdom is up to standard which is comparable to international level, though the need to increase the acceptance rate and the use of harvested liver requires more effort in the management of deceased donors. Both LR and DD transplant should be enhance to meet the everincreasing demand of organ transplantation.