Long term outcomes of transplantation using kidneys from expanded criteria donors: prospective, population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the long term outcomes of transplantation using expanded criteria donors (ECD; donors aged ≥ 60 years or aged 50-59 years with vascular comorbidities) and assess the main determinants of its prognosis.

Design

Prospective, population based cohort study.

Setting

Four French referral centres.

Participants

Consecutive patients who underwent kidney transplantation between January 2004 and January 2011, and were followed up to May 2014. A validation cohort included patients from another four referral centres in France who underwent kidney transplantation between January 2002 and December 2011.

Main outcome measures

Long term kidney allograft survival, based on systematic assessment of donor, recipient, and transplant clinical characteristi

SUBMITTER: Aubert O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521904 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature