title: Having a Healthy Birth With a 100-Year-Old Liver.
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.
authors.affiliation: 1 Liver Transplantation Institute, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kerem
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tolan
authors.affiliation: 1 Liver Transplantation Institute, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Cuneyt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kayaalp
authors.affiliation: 1 Liver Transplantation Institute, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mukadder
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ispir
authors.affiliation: 1 Liver Transplantation Institute, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kirmizi
authors.affiliation: 1 Liver Transplantation Institute, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sezai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004443:Echinococcosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Transplant donor; aged; echinococcus; hydatid disease; pregnancy; transplant recipient