Liver Transplantation from Donors Aged 80 Years and Over: Pushing the Limit
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Liver transplantation from donors aged 80 years and over: pushing the limit.
Older donors are a growing part of the total donor pool but no definite consensus exists on the limit of age for their acceptance. From November 1998 to January 2003, in a retrospective case-control multicenter study, we compared the outcome of 30 orthotopic liver transplantations (OLTs) with octogenarian donors and of 60 chronologically correlated OLTs performed with donors <40 years. The perc...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1600-6135,1600-6143
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00472.x