Renal transplantation is also an option for patients over 70.

Background: Kidney transplantation is generally regarded as the best treatment option for patients with end-stage renal disease. Because of an increase in the elderly population, the number of elderly patients with end-stage renal disease is expected to increase. The scope of this paper is to present existing knowledge about the survival after kidney transplantation of patients over 70 years of age at the time of transplantation.

Minimally invasive renal auto-transplantation: the first report.

Background: Regarding transplant surgery, the minimally invasive revolution was started in 1995 by laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy (L-LDN). In 2006, we made the first report on a minimally invasive technique for kidney transplantation; restricted to a 7-9 cm transverse incision targeted on the anastomotic area of the iliac vessels, and with the meticulously prepared kidney placed in a fitting, retroperitoneal pouch lateral to the skin incision.

Materials And Methods: By combining "hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy" and "minimally invasive kidney transplantation" - using the same incision (7-8 cm) for hand-assistance, kidney harvesting, and transplantation - we have during 2009 conducted "minimally invasive renal auto-transplantation" in two patients.

Clinical outcomes in elderly kidney transplant recipients are related to acute rejection episodes rather than pretransplant comorbidity.

Background: Deciding whether an elderly patient with end-stage renal disease is a candidate for kidney transplantation can be difficult. We aimed to evaluate pre- and early posttransplant risk factors that could predict outcome in elderly kidney recipients.

Methods: Data from all elderly (>or= 70 years, n=354), senior (60-69 years, n=577), and control (45-54 years, n=563) patients receiving their first kidney transplant at our center from 1990 to 2005 were retrieved.

Long-term outcome of pediatric renal transplantation: the Norwegian experience in three eras 1970-2006.

During the years 1970-2006, 251 renal transplantations were performed in 178 children in Norway. The proportion of LD was 84%. Transplantations were performed preemptively in 52%.

Kidney transplantation in the elderly--the Norwegian experience.

Background: Elderly patients are the fastest growing population requiring renal replacement therapy. With increasing scarcity of organs, old patients are likely to remain in dialysis. We have had an active transplant program with elderly patients (i.

Improvement of post-transplant lymphocele treatment in the laparoscopic era.

Post-transplant lymphoceles are a common problem after renal transplantation, often inflicting the graft or adjacent iliac veins. Since 1991, there have been many reports on laparoscopic fenestration as the treatment of choice, but no larger series has been presented. At our department, 63 laparoscopic procedures were performed between 1993 and 2001 among 1502 renal graft recipients.