637720login-checkPost-Transplant NASH Patients Fare Worse With Older Donor Livers |
By Lucy Hicks
Liver transplant recipients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who received grafts from older donors are at higher risk for post-transplant death, especially due to infection, according to a new study.
All-cause mortality was twice as high and death from an infectious cause was more than three times as high for patients with NASH who received liver grafts from octogenarian donors than for those who received a liver from someone younger than 50.
Read more in Medscape.
637720login-checkPost-Transplant NASH Patients Fare Worse With Older Donor Livers |