Elderly Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients Over 60 Years Old at a Japanese Single Center

Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Patients Older Than Age 70 Years: A Single-Center Experience

“…Depending on the recipient and graft conditions, however, donor selection criteria may need to be changed. At our center, as in others, donors for patients aged ≥70 years are more carefully selected . Liver grafts from young donors with sufficient GRWR can tolerate posttransplant surgical and medical complication well.…”

Impact of age on the incidence of complications after liver transplantation: A single-center retrospective study

“…Recently, with accumulated experience and successful LT cases, several studies have reported that graft survival and mortality did not differ significantly between young and elderly liver transplant recipients. 7 , 15 , 19 , 20 , 21 These studies suggested that functional status rather than chronological age had a greater impact on outcomes. Functional status depends not only on advanced patient age but also on behavioral factors, including exercise, BMI, smoking and alcohol use, and psychosocial factors.…”

Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Is Recipient Age a Barrier?

“…(2) Similarly, reduced survival and increased morbidity have been demonstrated among data from other countries; however, not all published data indicate a negative association between recipient age and survival. (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) In this issue of Liver Transplantation, Hakeem et al assessed the impact of older recipients (aged >65 years) on the outcomes of LDLT by analyzing prospectively collected data from a large cohort of LDLTs performed at a single institute in India during a span of over 10 years. (8) The authors compared the outcomes of this population to their younger cohort of LDLT recipients (aged 18-65 years) by means of propensity score matching for preoperative recipient and donor parameters associated with LDLT outcomes.…”