Amazing stuff! I toast to that! (just kidney kidding) 😊
"A research team composed of members from the University of Texas (UT) and TransMedics, Massachusetts reports that a human liver can stay functional for over 100 years. The results are based on a (still small, but growing) subset of livers that have been transplanted once or several times for a cumulative age of over 100 years across their patients. ...
Of the 253,406 livers transplanted between 1990 and 2022, 25 met this age criterion. ... These long-lived livers came from older donors. The average donor age of this subset of organs was much higher than that of donors for livers that did not pass 100 years of age: 84.7 years vs. 38.5 years of age, respectively. Another notable difference between the two groups that the team observed was that donors from the centenarian liver group had lower incidences of diabetes and fewer donor infections. ..."
Of the 253,406 livers transplanted between 1990 and 2022, 25 met this age criterion. ... These long-lived livers came from older donors. The average donor age of this subset of organs was much higher than that of donors for livers that did not pass 100 years of age: 84.7 years vs. 38.5 years of age, respectively. Another notable difference between the two groups that the team observed was that donors from the centenarian liver group had lower incidences of diabetes and fewer donor infections. ..."
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