Recurrent and de novo cancers contribute to morbidity and mortality post‐transplantation.
However, data on cancer prevalence in waiting list patients are lacking. The purpose of this …

Background. There is an increasing tendency to allocate kidneys from marginal donors in
older recipients. This combination optimizes the uses of an expanded donor pool but …

The number of older individuals receiving a kidney transplant as replacement therapy has
significantly increased in the past decades and this increase is expected to continue. Older …

Background The risk of transplant recipient infection is unknown when the preservation
solution culture is positive. Methods We developed a prediction model to evaluate the …

Background The number of elderly patients with end-stage kidney disease requiring kidney
transplantation continues to grow. Evaluation of healthy older adults has revealed …

The life expectancy of the population in general is increasing consistently, as is the age of
the dialysis population. Consequently, donors and recipients are getting older, and renal …

Purpose We aimed to investigate the role of the recipient's age strata in modifying the
associations between risk factors and mortality in non-elderly adult kidney transplant (KT) …

T-cell functions are currently used as biomarkers for the pharmacodynamic monitoring of
immunosuppressive drugs or as disease biomarkers of inflammation/sepsis and organ …

Objectives: The number of renal transplants in elderly patients is increasing as age per se
does not constitute a contraindication to transplant. We compared renal transplant outcomes …

The maximum age of recipients expected to benefit with a kidney transplant has increased in
the past three decades. In 1980, patients older than age 50 were not listed for a transplant …