Renal Transplant in Elderly End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Impact of Comorbidities and Posttransplant Adverse Events on Outcomes

CONCLUSIONS: Elderly renaltransplantrecipients showed promising 5-year patient and death-censored graft survival, exceeding 80%, despite higher mortality risk compared with young recipients. Optimizing outcomes of elderly renal transplant necessitates a multifaceted approach encompassing meticulous pretransplant cardiovascular disease assessment, rigorous posttransplant chest infection prevention and management, and proactive monitoring for early posttransplant kidney dysfunction, to permit timely intervention.PMID:38511980 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2023.0301
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research