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Impact of Age Matching of Donors to Recipients on Renal Transplant Outcomes Following Donation After Cardiac Death
- Source :
- Transplantation Proceedings. 42:3954-3956
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- Organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) provides a valuable supply of grafts for renal transplantation. Age matching of donors to recipients is often used. We sought to determine the impact of age matching on the outcomes among our cohort of DCD renal transplant recipients. Using our institutional database, we gathered information on all DCD renal transplants performed between April 2002 and December 2009. We divided the cohort into two groups based upon the donor:recipient age ratio: age-matched (between 25th and 75th percentiles, n = 99) and non-age-matched (25th percentile and75th centile, n = 100). We failed to demonstrate any significant difference between the two groups in terms of early complications or long-term outcome or function. Age matching did not appear to affect graft outcomes, particularly for young donors, but may have a role in older donors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Matching (statistics)
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Cohort Studies
medicine
Humans
Organ donation
Transplantation
business.industry
Patient Selection
Significant difference
Age Factors
Donation after cardiac death
Middle Aged
Kidney Transplantation
Tissue Donors
Surgery
Death
Renal transplant
Cohort
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00411345
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transplantation Proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....889486b98400482bdd6649656cd9c22d