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Murine Renal Transplantation Procedure
Published on: July 10, 2009
Kidney transplantation in the elderly
Neeraj Singh1, Uday Nori, Todd Pesavento
1Division of Transplantation, Department of Nephrology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. neeraj.singh@osumc.edu
Purpose Of Review:
Recent outcome data, ongoing organ shortage and proposed changes in allocation policies are driving the need to review current practices and possible future course of kidney transplantation in the elderly patients.
Recent Findings:
A proposed new kidney allocation system based on matching donor and recipient characteristics to enable 'age-matched' kidney allocation is currently being discussed in the USA. While this system benefits younger recipients, implications for elderly recipients receiving older grafts remain a matter of debate.
Summary:
Despite improved outcomes, there remain significant challenges to kidney transplantation in the elderly, including organ shortage, poor transplant rate, evolving allocation policies, high wait-list mortality and nonstandardized immunosuppression. Prospective studies are needed to evaluate the strategies to meet these challenges and to study the impact of proposed new allocation system.
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