Restricting liver transplant recipients to younger donors does not increase the wait‐list time or the dropout rate: The hepatitis C experience

Jennifer A. Flemming, Parsia A. Vagefi, Chris E. Freise, Francis Y. Yao, Norah A. Terrault – 25 June 2014 – Older donor age is associated with lower graft and patient survival among all recipients of liver transplantation (LT). Among patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), donor age is one of the strongest predictors of fibrosis severity and graft loss. We evaluated the implementation of a donor age restriction policy for LT patients with HCV at a single center and the effects that this policy had on wait‐list (WL) and post‐LT outcomes for HCV and non‐HCV patients.

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