Saturday, March 3, 2012

Data on Kidney Transplants Reported by J.G. Olaverri and Co-Researchers.(Report)

Fresh data on Kidney Transplants are presented in the report "Utilization of advanced-age donors in renal transplantation. 'The shortage of organ availability in recent years has made it necessary to use grafts from advanced-aged donors to maintain the rate of renal transplantation in our country. The objective of this study was to evaluate the graft function and patient survival using kidneys from deceased donors of over 65 year of age," investigators in Bizkaia, Spain report (see also Kidney Transplants).

"From 2005 until 2010, we compared the outcomes of patients who received grafts from donors over 65 years old vs less than 65 years. We observed no significant difference …

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