Half of kidney transplant candidates who are older than 60 years now placed on the waiting list will die before receiving a deceased-donor transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Waiting times to deceased-donor transplantation (DDTx) have significantly increased in the past decade. This trend particularly affects older candidates given a high mortality rate on dialysis.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We conducted a retrospective analysis from the national Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database that included 54,669 candidates who were older than 60 yr and listed in the United States for a solitary kidney transplant from 1995 through 2007. Using survival models, we estimated time to DDTx and mortality after candidate listing with and without patients initially listed as temporarily inactive (status 7).

Results

Almost half (46%) of candidates who were older than 60 yr and listed in 2006 thro

SUBMITTER: Schold J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2709520 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature