Kidneys from older living donors provide excellent intermediate-term outcomes after transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 499-505

  Balachandran, Vinod P ^a   Aull, Meredith J ^a   Charlton, Marian ^a   Afaneh, Cheguevara ^a   Serur, David ^b   Leeser, David B ^a   Del Pizzo, Joseph ^a   Kapur, Sandip ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney transplant; Older kidney donor; Older living donor

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DONOR SELECTION; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866333284     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31825c5940     Document Type: Article

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