Liver transplantations with donors aged 60 years and above: the low liver damage strategy
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Use of elderly donors (> 60 years) for liver transplantation.
BACKGROUND As the demand for liver transplantation has become greater than the availability of donor livers, the criteria for donor selection or rejection are more important than ever before. In view of an increasing number of patients on the waiting list, some centres are expanding their donor pool by relaxing the criteria, such as by using organs from elderly (> 60 years) brainstem-dead donor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transplant International
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0934-0874,1432-2277
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00812.x