Long-Term Outcome of Renal Transplantation from Older Donors
Author(s) -
Giuseppe Remuzzi,
Paolo Cravedi,
Annalisa Perna,
Borislav D. Dimitrov,
Marta Turturro,
Giuseppe Locatelli,
Paolo Rigotti,
Nicola Baldan,
M Beatini,
Umberto Valente,
M. Scalamogna,
Piero Ruggenenti
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa052891
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , dialysis , transplantation , prospective cohort study , kidney , surgery , kidney transplantation , cohort , proportional hazards model , relative risk , cohort study , urology
Long-term survival of kidney grafts from older donors is inferior to that of grafts from younger donors. We sought to determine whether selecting older kidneys according to their histologic characteristics before implantation would positively influence long-term outcome.
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