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The aim of the current study was to demonstrate whether selecting living donor liver grafts with double or triple arteries yielded the same outcomes as grafts with a single artery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We retrospectively investigated the outcomes of LDLT focusing on the numbers of arteries on grafts. Four hundred forty-six cases of LDLT performed between October 1996 and October 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. The cases were divided into the following three groups according to the number of arteries on a graft: the single (n=331), the double (n=108), and the triple (n=7) groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Artery-related complications occurred in five cases in the single group, two cases in the double group, and no case in the triple group. 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