The relative importance of donor age in deceased and living donor kidney transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1150-1157

  Laging, Mirjam ^a   Kal Van Gestel, Judith A ^a   Van De Wetering, Jacqueline ^a   Ijzermans, Jan N M ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a   Roodnat, Joke I ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

donor age; extended criteria living donors; graft survival; living donor kidney transplantation; recipient age

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA ANTIGEN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PANEL REACTIVE ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CADAVER DONOR AGE; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867513658     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2012.01539.x     Document Type: Article

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