ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2019
Survival benefit of accepting livers from deceased donors over 70 years old.
Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Effect of Donor-Recipient Age Difference on Liver Transplant Outcomes.Transplantation direct · 2026Article
- Donor-recipient age mismatch and outcomes in liver transplantation: A scientific registry of transplant recipients database analysis.World journal of transplantation · 2025Article
- Dynamic Lactate Clearance Patterns During Normothermic Machine Perfusion Predict Posttransplant Biliary Complications in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation.Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- Influence of donor age on liver transplantation outcomes: A multivariate analysis and comparative study.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Article
- Current Understanding of Marginal Grafts in Liver Transplantation.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Post-transplant biliary complications using liver grafts from deceased donors older than 70 years: Retrospective case-control study.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2023Article
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- Beyond the Concepts of Elder and Marginal in DCD Liver Transplantation: A Prospective Observational Matched-Cohort Study in the Italian Clinical Setting.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Observational
- The perioperative period of liver transplantation from unconventional extended criteria donors: data from two high-volume centres.BMC anesthesiology · 2022Article
- Machine Perfusion for Extended Criteria Donor Livers: What Challenges Remain?Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- How Old Is Old? An Age-Stratified Analysis of Elderly Liver Donors above 65.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Survival benefit of accepting kidneys from older donation after cardiac death donors.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021Article
- Recent advances in liver transplantation for cancer: The future of transplant oncology.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2019Review
- Liver Grafts with Major Extended Donor Criteria May Expand the Organ Pool for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Livers from older donors (OLDs; age ≥70) are risky and often declined; however, it is likely that some candidates will benefit from OLDs versus waiting for younger ones. To characterize the survival benefit of accepting OLD grafts, we used 2009-2017 SRTR data to identify 24 431 adult liver transplant (LT) candidates who were offered OLD grafts eventually accepted by someone. Outcomes from the time-of-offer were compared between candidates who accepted an OLD graft and matched controls within MELD ± 2 who declined the same offer. Candidates who accepted OLD grafts (n = 1311) were older (60.5 vs. 57.8 years, P < .001), had a higher median MELD score (25 vs. 22, P < .001), and were less likely to have hepatitis C cirrhosis (14.9% vs. 31.2%, P < .001). Five-year cumulative mortality among those who accepted versus declined the same OLD offer was 23.4% versus 41.2% (P < .001). Candidates who accepted OLDs experienced an almost twofold reduction in mortality (aHR:
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