Criteria for and Appropriateness of Renal Transplantation in Elderly Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Literature Review and Position Statement on Behalf of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association Descartes Working Group and European Renal Best Practice

Transplantation

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2016, Pages e55-e65

  Segall, Liviu ^a   Nistor, Ionuţ ^b,c   Pascual, Julio ^d,e,f   Mucsi, Istvan ^g   Guirado, Lluis ^h   Higgins, Robert ⁱ   Van Laecke, Steven ^c   Oberbauer, Rainer ^f,j   Van Biesen, Wim ^c   Abramowicz, Daniel ^f,k   Gavrilovici, Cristina ^b   Farrington, Ken ^l   Covic, Adrian ^b  

^a Nefrocare MS Dialysis Centre   (Romania)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e Hospital delMarMedical Research Institute   (Spain)

^f Descartes Working Group of ERA EDTA   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^h FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^j MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^k ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; ORGAN DONOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SURVIVAL; ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FRAIL ELDERLY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84989285166     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001367     Document Type: Review

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