Benefit of kidney transplantation beyond 70 years of age

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1680-1687

  Heldal, Kristian ^a,b,c   Hartmann, Anders ^b,c   Grootendorst, Diana C ^d   De Jager, Dinanda J ^d   Leivestad, Torbjørn ^b   Foss, Aksel ^b   Midtvedt, Karsten ^b  

^a Clinic of Internal Medicine   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Elderly patients; Epidemiology; Kidney transplantation; Patient survival

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CODING; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77951685265     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp681     Document Type: Article

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