- introduced liver transplant as a therapeutic method in romania, from pioneering to routine procedure, starting in april 2000 (when the first liver transplant with surviving patient took place). the most difficult part of the implementation was the success of the surgical intervention. the ingredients for this to work were irinel popescu's three years training period in usa and the forming of a team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, hepatologists, immunologists, microbiologists and others. at present, fundeni clinical institute operates all kinds of known transplantations (liver from dead doner, liver from living doner, reduced liver, domino transplantation)