How to Select Elderly Patients for Living Donor Liver Transplantation With Acceptable Outcomes

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Kenei Furukawa et al. Liver Transpl. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;27(10):1502-1503.

doi: 10.1002/lt.26105. Epub 2021 Jun 29.

¹ Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas SurgeryDepartment of Surgery The Jikei University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.

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Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Posttransplant Outcomes in Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Older Adult Recipients.
Hakeem AR, Fathima R, Padmanaban H, Haribabu K, Rajalingam R, Palaniappan K, Jothimani D, Kanagavelu R, Rajakumar A, Kaliamoorthy I, Reddy MS, Rela M. Hakeem AR, et al. Liver Transpl. 2021 Sep;27(9):1273-1282. doi: 10.1002/lt.26061. Epub 2021 Jul 21. Liver Transpl. 2021. PMID: 33787013

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