Renal transplantation in the elderly: Surgical complications and outcome with special emphasis on the Eurotransplant Senior Programme

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2043-2051

  Bentas, Wassilios ^a   Jones, Jon ^a   Karaoguz, Akay ^a   Tilp, Ursula ^a   Probst, Michael ^a   Scheuermann, Ernst ^a   Hauser, Ingeborg A ^a   Jonas, Dietger ^a   Gossmann, Jan ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KfH Kidney Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly renal transplant recipient; Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System (ETKAS); Eurotransplant Senior Programme (ESP); Renal transplantation; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEROMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINOMA; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 44449114735     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm912     Document Type: Article

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