… older people,3-5 but data from the United States shows that older patients with end-stage
renal disease receive renal … ideal candidates for renal transplantation. Unfortunately, this bias …

… Outcomes in older patients have not, however, been fully defined. The aim of our study is
to … in older people following renal transplantation at a Scottish regional transplant unit. …

… Renal transplantation is accepted as the best form of renal replacement therapy. Due to an
… been a growth in the number of elderly people with end stage renal disease in recent years, …

… older patients have become candidates for kidney transplantation, the outcomes of renal
transplantation … In this review, we seek to better define the outcomes of renal transplantation in …

… problems, compared with younger renal graft recipients ( 2 , 7 ). … advantage in older renal
transplantation patients, we … in a group of renal graft recipients of 65 years and older, and …

… Using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, we analyzed data from 5667 elderly
renal transplant candidates who initially were wait-listed from January 1, 1990 to December …

… whether dialysis should be preferred to renal transplantation in older patients or vice versa.
… on regular dialysis and patients who underwent renal transplantation [8]. The results of …

… Only in Norway has transplantation of elderly recipients from living donors – many of them
also elderly – been pursued actively, in line with the high overall use of living donor grafts in …

… However, recent medical advances and the growing number of elderly … of elderly patients
receiving kidney transplants. In this paper, we will review the issues related to renal transplant …

… renal transplantation enhances a patient’s quality of life and survival rate as compared to
dialysis (1, 9). The higher number of elderly people … a contraindication for renal transplantation. …