Renal transplantation in elderly patients. How to select the candidates to the waiting list?

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 188-192

  Ponticelli, Claudio ^a   Podestà, Manuel Alfredo ^a   Graziani, Giorgio ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERONTOLOGIST; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; KIDNEY DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84908063201     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: 15579816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2014.07.001     Document Type: Review

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