title: Acceptability of older adults as living kidney donors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Kidney transplantation from a living kidney donor (LKD) is associated with better long-term survival and quality of life for a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) than dialysis. We reviewed recent literature on the acceptability and outcomes of older adults as LKDs, which may be misunderstood in routine care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Studies report that receiving a kidney from an older LKD is associated with worse recipient and graft survival compared with receiving a kidney from a younger LKD, but similar recipient and graft survival to receiving a kidney from a standard criteria deceased donor. A kidney from a younger vs. older LKD results in better graft survival in younger recipients, whereas the graft survival is similar in older recipients. Compared with healthy matched nondonors, older LKDs have a similar risk of death and cardiovascular disease and the absolute risk of ESRD after 15 years remains less than 1%. The estimated predonation and postdonation lifetime risk of ESRD varies by age, sex and race with lower incidences in individuals who are older, female and white (vs. African-American).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Donor and recipient outcomes from several studies support the acceptability of older adults as LKDs.
authors.affiliation: aDepartment of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta bDepartment of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Ngan N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: Amit X
authors.initials: AX
authors.lastname: Garg
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000276:immunology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000276:immunology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D019520:Living Donors