First-in-human liver transplantation from a centenarian deceased donor after brain death
Abstract
Liver transplantation from elderly donors is expanding due to demand for liver grafts, aging of recipients and donors, and introduction of machine perfusion. We report on a liver transplant from a 100-year-old deceased donor after brain death. The liver was transplanted after the use of hypothermic machine perfusion to a 60-year-old recipient with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing neoadjuvant immunotherapy. Nine months after the transplant, the patient is alive with a functioning graft and no evidence of acute rejection or tumor recurrence.
The paper
University of Pisa; Regione Toscana
American Journal of Transplantation, 25 Sep 2023, Open access
doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2023.09.014PubMed 37757913
Corrected, 1 May 2024
