Yohann Foucher, Ahmed Akl, Vanessa Rousseau, Katy Trébern-Launay, Marine Lorent, Michèle Kessler, Marc Ladrière, Christophe Legendre, Henri Kreis, Lionel Rostaing, Nassim Kamar, Georges Mourad, Valérie Garrigue, Emmanuel Morelon, Fanny Buron, Jean-Pierre Daurès, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Magali Giral
Compared to dialysis, kidney transplantation appears to be the best treatment for chronic kidney failure, even for older aged patients. Nevertheless, the individual benefit of transplanting elderly patients has to be balanced against the corresponding increase in the number of patients awaiting grafts. We analyzed the excess mortality related to kidney transplant recipients by taking into account the expected mortality of the general population (additive regression model for relative survival). We applied this method to a cohort of patients who received a first deceased-donor kidney transplant between 1998 and 2009 in France (DIVAT, n = 3641)...
February 2014: Transplant International