Clinical Outcomes of Right-Lobe Split-Liver versus Orthotopic Liver Transplants from Donors More than 70 Years Old

Conclusion—
Even if OLT-Y guarantees better patient and graft survival, both RL-SLT and OLT-O can be used safely to expand the pool of liver donors, showing acceptable clinical results and complications rates.

Source: Progress in Transplantation - August 31, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Memeo, R., de'Angelis, N., Salloum, C., Compagnon, P., Laurent, A., Feray, C., Duvoux, C., Azoulay, D. Tags: Clinical Issues in Transplantation Source Type: research