Liver Transplantation and the Elderly Candidate: Perioperative Considerations.
Anesthesiol Clin
; 41(3): 595-611, 2023 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
Pioneered by Thomas Starzl in the early 1970s, liver transplant (LT) is nowadays often considered a final intervention and standard of care to cure many forms of acute and chronic end-stage liver diseases. Started in recipients younger than 60 years old, LT indications are now much broader, and at least, one-fifth of the candidates are older than 65 years. Problems associated with ageing and frailty in LT recipients and their impact on the entire perioperative course are discussed according to a modern anesthesiological perspective and the anesthesiologist covering the role of the perioperative (transplant) physician.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transplante de Fígado
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Anesthesiol Clin
Assunto da revista:
ANESTESIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article