Having a Healthy Birth With a 100-Year-Old Liver

Tolan K., KAYAALP C., Ispir M., Kirmizi S., YILMAZ S.

PROGRESS IN TRANSPLANTATION, vol.26, no.4, pp.392-393, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 26 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1177/1526924816664088
  • Journal Name: PROGRESS IN TRANSPLANTATION
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.392-393
  • Keywords: Transplant donor, transplant recipient, pregnancy, aged, echinococcus, hydatid disease, TRANSPLANTATION, GRAFT, DONORS, AGE
  • Inonu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In March 2008, a 19-year-old woman required emergency liver transplantation due to acute-on-chronic liver failure. No living donor candidate was available. A marginal deceased liver that had been rejected by all the other centers was offered. The liver belonged to a 93-year-old woman and contained a hydatid cyst. Because of low donation rates in our country, we chose to accept the 93-year-old liver. The postoperative early and late courses were fortunately uneventful. Five years after transplantation, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy female baby. Today, the ages of the baby, mother, and the transplanted liver are 1, 26, and 100 years, respectively. A nonagenarian liver with hydatid disease was able to sustain its viability in a younger woman after transplant and also helped her bring in a new life into the world.