As you know, the problem of donation is acute in modern transplantology. If until recently the permissible age range for living donors was determined within 18-65 years, now it is purely individually to the upper age boundary. Such donors are called in modern medicine “marginal donors.”
HAQQIN.AZ answers the leading kidney transplant specialist, a well-known surgeon transplantologist Rashad Solan.
– How do we have questions of donation, and in particular the age category of donors?
– As you know, so far in Azerbaijan organs for transplantation are taken only in living people on a voluntary basis and in most cases in close relatives. Donors for medical and ethical and legal considerations should be completely healthy people. Those. After the transplantation of the body or part of the body, the donor must return to normal, completely healthy life. If the classically age limit was determined for the donor within 18-65 years, now the upper boundary is quite individual.
– How many years old was the youngest and oldest donor?
– As you know, our center of renal diseases and transplantology is the leading center for kidney transplant. The most elderly donor was a woman of 78 years old, and the youngest – the guy is 28 years old. My personal point of view – if the donor on all vital indicators is healthy, then the upper age limit does not matter. After all, we scrupulously check all organs and fabrics as a donor and recipient.