Age and the associations of living donor and expanded criteria donor kidneys with kidney transplant outcomes

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 841-848

  Molnar, Miklos Z ^a,b   Streja, Elani ^a   Kovesdy, Csaba P ^c,d   Shah, Anuja ^a   Huang, Edmund ^e   Bunnapradist, Suphamai ^e   Krishnan, Mahesh ^f   Kopple, Joel D ^a,e,g   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^a,e,g  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DAVITA INC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; graft failure; kidney transplantation; living donor; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861346589     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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