Johan de Fijter, Geertje Dreyer, Marko Mallat, Klemens Budde, Johann Pratschke, Jürgen Klempnauer, Martin Zeier, Wolfgang Arns, Christian Hugo, Lars-Christian Rump, Ingeborg Hauser, Peter Schenker, Mario Schiffer, Marc-Oliver Grimm, Volker Kliem, Christoph J Olbricht, Przemyslaw Pisarski, Bernhard Banas, Barbara Suwelack, Oliver Hakenberg, Gabriela Berlakovich, Stefan Schneeberger, Jacqueline van de Wetering, Stefan Berger, Frederike Bemelman, Dirk Kuypers, Sebastiaan Heidt, Axel Rahmel, Frans Claas, Patrick Peeters, Rainer Oberbauer, Uwe Heemann, Bernhard Krämer
The Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) has expedited the chance for elderly patients with kidney failure to receive a timely transplant. This current study evaluated survival parameters of kidneys donated after brain death with or without matching for HLA-DR antigens. This cohort study evaluated the period within ESP with paired allocation of 675 kidneys from donors 65 years and older to transplant candidates 65 years and older, the first kidney to 341 patients within the Eurotransplant Senior DR-compatible Program and 334 contralateral kidneys without (ESP) HLA-DR antigen matching...
June 19, 2023: Kidney International