Half of Kidney Transplant Candidates Who Are Older than 60 Years Now Placed on the Waiting List Will Die before Receiving a Deceased-Donor Transplant | Zendy

Jesse D. Schold | Zendy; Titte R. Srinivas | Zendy; Ashwini R. Sehgal | Zendy; HerwigUlf MeierKriesche | Zendy

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Half of Kidney Transplant Candidates Who Are Older than 60 Years Now Placed on the Waiting List Will Die before Receiving a Deceased-Donor Transplant

Author(s) -

Jesse D. Schold,

Titte R. Srinivas,

Ashwini R. Sehgal,

HerwigUlf MeierKriesche

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.01280209

Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , united network for organ sharing , transplantation , kidney transplantation , population , diabetes mellitus , retrospective cohort study , demography , gerontology , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , environmental health , liver transplantation , sociology , endocrinology

Waiting times to deceased-donor transplantation (DDTx) have significantly increased in the past decade. This trend particularly affects older candidates given a high mortality rate on dialysis.

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