Donor-recipient age matching improves years of graft function in deceased-donor kidney transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3082-3089

  Lim, Wai H ^a,b   Chang, Sean ^b   Chadban, Steve ^b,c   Campbell, Scott ^b,d   Dent, Hannah ^b,g   Russ, Graeme R ^b,e,f   McDonald, Stephen P ^b,e,f  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ANZDATA Registry   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age matching; ANZDATA; graft survival; kidney transplant; registry

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS;

AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; CADAVER; CREATININE; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956249627     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq127     Document Type: Article

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