Deceased-donor characteristics and the survival benefit of kidney transplantation.

By R. Merion, V. Ashby, R. Wolfe, D. Distant, T. Hulbert-Shearon, R. Metzger, A. Ojo, F. Port. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2005

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery, Transplantation

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• Systematic Review: Kidney Transplantation Compared With Dialysis in Clinically Relevant Outcomes (2011, background): “extended-criteria donor (16,17), primary cause of ESRD (18–23), findings of coronary angiography (24,25), coronary artery bypass surgery (26), a low-protein diet (27), cancer (28), diabetes (22,29–34), obesity (35), employment (36), race (37–42) and age (7,43–47).”
• KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Management of Candidates for Kidney Transplantation. (2020, background): “This survival advantage persists despite a significantly higher incidence of early mortality in some reports.(40,41,45,46,52) A number of European and American studies have confirmed that transplantation in advanced age patients is associated with prolonged graft survival, since patient survival is ”