Should advanced donor age be a deterrent in the utilization of grafts from donation after cardiac death in deceased donor liver transplantation? The Toronto experience

CONCLUSION: Donor age alone should not be the criterion to determine the acceptability of grafts in liver transplantation. With careful selection criteria, older DCD donors could make a valuable contribution to expanding the liver donor pool, with grafts that produce comparable results to those obtained with standard-criteria grafts.PMID:38016726 | DOI:10.1503/cjs.001123

Source: Canadian Journal of Surgery - November 28, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Samrat Ray Chaya Shwaartz Blayne Amir Sayed Gonzalo Sapisochin Anand Ghanekar Ian McGilvray Mark Cattral Leslie Lilly Nazia Selzner Cynthia Tsien Mamatha Bhat Elmar Jaeckel Markus Selzner Trevor W Reichman Source Type: research