title: Improving results of renal transplantation with the use of elderly donors: the Budapest experience.
abstract: The use of elderly donors has become a necessity with the increasing demand for deceased donor organs resulting in transplant centers worldwide expanding their donor criteria. We, therefore, thought it appropriate to review our experience using elderly (>60 years) brain-dead donors for kidney transplantation. We investigated the influence of donor parameters on early graft function and survival. A retrospective comparative analysis of three periods was performed: 1994 to 1998 (P1) n = 40; 1999 to 2000 (P2) n = 28; and 2001 to 2002 (P3) with n = 31 donors. Mean donor age in each period was 63.4 +/- 3.3, 64.5 +/- 3.4, and 63.8 +/- 2.7 years; mean diuresis was 473 +/- 450, 307 +/- 316, and 276 +/- 185 mL/hour; and the need for vasopressors during donor management was 81%, 85%, and 70% respectively. The number of kidney recipients was 59, 30, and 37, mean age was 49 +/- 13, 53 +/- 11 and 54 +/- 8 years, the recipient ratio of patients >60 years was 17%, 33%, and 27% respectively, and no differences among the groups in the HLA mismatch. Primary nonfunction occurred in 8.5%, 0%, and 2.8%; acute rejection ratio at 1 year was 35%, 36%, and 32%, the mean serum creatinine at 12 months was 183.7 +/- 66.0, 157.8 +/- 41.2 and 160.7 +/- 46.5 mumol/L. The 1-year graft survival was 71.2%, 91.0% and 92.0% and the 1-year patient survival 88.2%, 96.6%, and 97.2%, respectively, for periods 1, 2, and 3. There has been a considerable improvement in the 1-year graft and patient survivals. With careful donor and recipient evaluation, individualized immunosuppression, and age matching the results of renal transplantation from elderly deceased donors can be comparable to the results of the "optimal" deceased donor kidney transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplantation and Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. vegso@trans.sote.hu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Végsö
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Máthé
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Péter
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Perner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Járay
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Langer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000453:epidemiology; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine