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J. Ignacio Herrero, MD; Fernando Pardo, MD; Felix Alegre, MD; Jorge Quiroga, MD

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In their recent article published in Archives of Surgery, Lipshutz et al¹ reported their experience with liver transplantations in septuageniarians, concluding that age is not an independent risk factor in liver transplant recipients. They reference an article from our group,² in which survival in patients older than 60 years was not significantly different from survival in younger patients. More recently, we found a worse outcome in older patients and an independent influence of age on survival.³ In this article, we also found that older patients had a higher risk of developing de novo neoplasia. In fact, this complication was the main cause of death in this group of patients.

To date, we have performed transplantations in only 8 patients older than 70 years, but we have analyzed the survival of patients older than 65 years, comparing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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