Journal article
Accepting Kidneys from Older Living Donors: Impact on Transplant Recipient Outcomes
Abstract
Older living kidney donors are regularly accepted. Better knowledge of recipient outcomes is needed to inform this practice. This retrospective cohort study observed kidney allograft recipients from Ontario, Canada between January 2000 and March 2008. Donors to these recipients were older living (≥ 60 years), younger living, or standard criteria deceased (SCD). Review of medical records and electronic healthcare data were used to perform …
Authors
Young A; Kim SJ; Speechley MR; Huang A; Knoll GA; Prasad GVR; Treleaven D; Diamant M; Garg AX; Network FTDNOR
Journal
American Journal of Transplantation, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 743–750
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03442.x
ISSN
1600-6135