Half of kidney transplant candidates who are older than 60 years now placed on the waiting list will die before receiving a deceased-donor transplant

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1239-1245

  Schold, Jesse D ^a,b   Srinivas, Titte R ^c   Sehgal, Ashwini R ^c,d   Meier Kriesche, Herwig Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP B; BLOOD GROUP O; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CADAVER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DONOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CADAVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 70349331120     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01280209     Document Type: Article

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