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- Title
Trasplante hepático en mayores de 65 años de edad: experiencia en el Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Medellín, Colombia 2004-2010.
- Authors
Muñoz, Octavio; Ovadía, Laura; Saavedra, Yesid; Carlos Restrepo, Juan; Yepes, Carlos; Santos, Óscar; Ignacio Marín, Juan; Hoyos, Sergio; Guzmán, Carlos; Mena, Álvaro; Correa, Gonzalo
- Abstract
Liver transplantation protocols have been extended to people over 65 years of age who had previously been excluded from protocols due to the increased morbidity and mortality rates associated with age. This study aims to identify survival rates and complications in patients over 65 years who have undergone liver transplantation. Medical records of patients older than 65 who underwent liver transplantation in the period between September 2004 and November 2010 at the Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe in Medellin, Colombia were analyzed. We studied 27 patients with an average age of 67 years. The 30 day post-transplant survival rate was 85.2%, at one year the survival rate was 70.4%, and at five years it was 63%. An evaluation of post-transplant complications found that the most frequent complications were massive bleeding and nosocomial infections. The main causes of death were cardiovascular events. Conclusion: Proper patient selection allows those over 65 years of age to become candidates for liver transplantation with a good actuarial 5-year survival rate and better quality of life.
- Subjects
LIVER transplantation; OLDER patients; SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry); PATIENTS
- Publication
Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0120-9957
- Publication type
Article