Elderly donor graft for liver transplantation:Never too late

作     者：Harleen Chela Mohamad H Yousef Abdelmajeed A Albarrak Bhupinder S Romana Dania N Hudhud Veysel Tahan 

作者机构：Department of Internal MedicineUniversity of Missouri Division of Gastroenterology and HepatologyMissouri University 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Transplantation》 (世界移植杂志)

年 卷 期：2017年第7卷第6期

页      面：324-328页

学科分类：10[医学] 

主　　题：Liver transplantation Donor age Elderly Age Outcome Success 

摘      要：The definitive treatment for end stage liver disease remains a liver transplant and hence livers are needed for these patients along with cases of acute fulminant liver *** livers are a scarce and highly valuable commodity in the current *** extending the pool of donors to include the elderly livers,it allows for increased availability of donors and reduces the mortality that is associated with the waiting list *** is an increasing prevalence of end stage liver disease due to conditions like chronic hepatitis B and C,non-alcoholic steatohepatitis,alcoholic liver *** studies show non-inferior outcomes when elderly livers are used as a vigorous selection process is *** process takes into account the characteristics of the donor,graft and recipient allowing for appropriate donor-recipient *** meet the increasing demands of livers,elderly donors should be utilized for liver *** aim of this review article is to describe the aging process of the liver and the outcomes associated with use of elderly livers for transplantation.