"“irinel popescu achieved everything that could have been achieved in transplantation: living donor, adult, pediatric, domino transplant, split-liver etc., every technique at our disposal, all to increase the number of transplant beneficiaries, even using marginal donors. the bucharest center is a very valuable one and it deserves a much more ample program. the therapeutic possibilities offered by modern medicine and techniques must be available to the entire country.”" prof. dr. domenico forti, (chief of the general surgery and abdominal transplant department of milan's niguarda hospital)