Are older adults safe and suitable candidate donors or recipients for kidney transplantation?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Editorial

Yu Ah Hong. Kidney Res Clin Pract. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;41(3):271-274.

doi: 10.23876/j.krcp.22.028. Epub 2022 May 9.

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

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Elderly kidney transplant recipients have favorable outcomes but increased infection-related mortality.
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