Deceased-donor renal transplantation in the geriatric population demonstrates equal graft survival compared with younger recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1549-1554

  Sener, Alp ^a   Schweitzer, Eugene J ^a   Munivenkatappa, Raghava ^a   Cooper, Matthew ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a   Philosophe, Benjamin ^a   Barth, Rolf N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatrics; Graft; Kidney; Survival; Transplant

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CENSORED GRAFT SURVIVAL; DECEASED DONOR; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CADAVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649588871     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4b67d     Document Type: Article

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