Having a Healthy Birth With a 100-Year-Old Liver. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tolan, Kerem; Kayaalp, Cuneyt; Ispir, Mukadder; Kirmizi, Serdar; Yilmaz, Sezai
• Is Part Of: Progress in transplantation. Volume 26:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 392
• Page End: 393
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Transplant donor -- transplant recipient -- pregnancy -- aged -- echinococcus -- hydatid disease; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- Periodicals; Transplantation; Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc; Electronic journals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 362.1783
• DOI: 10.1177/1526924816664088
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1526-9248

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.