Elderly donor kidney transplant: factors involved in graft survival.

Purpose: To evaluate whether control of risk factors associated with worse results has improved graft survival, with respect of renal function quality and other factors influencing graft survival: recipient age, immunosuppressive therapy, cold ischemia time, acute tubular necrosis (ATN), acute rejection episodes (ARE) and 1-month creatinine levels.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective review of 147 patients who underwent kidney transplant between 1995 and 2001. Inclusion criteria were donor and recipient age older than 60 years, first renal transplant, follow-up period longer than 12 months, donor creatinine clearance higher than 75 mL/min, and less than 20% glomerulosclerosis observed in donor renal biopsy.

Living donor renal transplantation: prognostic factors on graft survival.

Introduction: Living donor renal transplantation is a treatment option for patients on dialysis in view of the ever-growing transplantation waiting lists and the stagnation in the number of deceased donors.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to provide retrospective review of our living donor kidney transplantation series (1978-2003) and analysis of graft survival prognostic factors.

Materials And Methods: Among 121 living donor transplantations, the donor mean age was 50.