Successful living donor liver transplantation between septuagenarians

Abstract

We report a case of a 76-year-old female who underwent living donor right hepatectomy for her 75-year-old husband with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma. With her voluntary decision, full medical and psychiatric assessment was performed. The operative time was 130min in the donor and 399min in the recipient. Both the donor and recipient had an uneventful recovery and were discharged on days 7 and 10, respectively with normal liver function. The couple has had no complication so far and is currently doing well in good health 26 months after living donor liver transplantation. The authors report a successful living donor liver transplantation between a 76-year-old female donor and her 75-year-old husband as a recipient. See editorial by Chen on page 15.