Kidney Transplants

New Kidney Transplants Study Findings Recently Were Published by Researchers at Gachon University

Published in Blood Weekly, March 29th, 2012

2012 MAR 29 -- According to the authors of recent research from Inchon, South Korea, "In paired living kidney exchange donation from an old donor to a young recipient, it may be argued that elderly donors provide an inferior quality kidney. However, the impact of donors older than recipients on transplant outcomes remains unclear."

"We retrospectively reviewed the charts of primary living kidney transplantation patients who were divided into two groups based on the age difference between donor and recipient (recipient age subtracted from donor age, donor-recipient < 20 vs >= 20). The donor-recipient age difference < 20 group comprised 75 and...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2012-03-29)

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