Paper refers the first in Czech Republic liver transplantation in a child with the donor being the close living relative – the father. Indication was the chronic liver failure caused by biliary atresia after the Kasai procedures, which enabled the child to survive two years. Liver segments II. - III were transplanted with favourable postoperative development. Within the following twenty months the nutrition status and the psychomotor development of the child significantly improved. Authors discuss present situation and results of the paediatric liver transplantation in the world.

        Key words: liver transplantation, living donor, paediatric recipient.