title: 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 130 min in the donor and 399 min 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.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011379:Prognosis; D018454:Spouses; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting
keywords: clinical research/practice; donor hepatectomy; liver transplantation/hepatology; liver transplantation: living donor