Intermediate-term outcomes associated with kidney transplantation in recipients 80 years and older: An analysis of the OPTN/UNOS database

Transplantation

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 974-979

  Huang, Edmund ^a   Poommipanit, Neda ^a   Sampaio, Marcelo S ^a,b   Kuo, Hung Tien ^a   Reddy, Pavani ^a   Gritsch, Hans Albin ^a   Pham, Phuong Thu ^a   Wilkinson, Alan ^a   Danovitch, Gabriel ^a   Bunnapradist, Suphamai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO PEDRO ERNESTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elderly; Kidney transplant; Outcomes; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650262647     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181f5c3bf     Document Type: Article

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