The evolving notion of "senior" kidney transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 794-802

  Shah, Tariq ^a   Bunnapradist, Suphamai ^a   Hutchinson, Ian ^a   Pravica, Vera ^a   Cho, Yong W ^a   Mendez, Rafael ^a   Mendez, Robert ^a   Takemoto, Steven K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Institute of Transplantation Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56349141117     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00881.x     Document Type: Article

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