Can Older Adults Safely Donate Kidneys? Can Older Adults Safely Donate Kidneys?
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JUNE 20, 2018 - With increasing organ demand, living kidney donation from older donors has become more common. A new Clinical Transplantation study indicates that kidney donation among carefully-selected adults over 60 years of age poses minimal perioperative risks and no added risk of long-term kidney failure.

A combination of an aging population and an overwhelming kidney transplant waitlist will necessarily compel transplant centers into accepting more older donors as a way to expand the donor pool.

“What this study demonstrates is that carefully-selected older kidney donors are at no higher risk, short-term or long-term, than their younger counterparts and this finding has the potential to expand the donor pool by making accessible a whole segment of the population that previously was perceived high-risk for donation,” said lead author Dr. Oscar Serrano, of the University of Minnesota.

***Full citation:*** *Oscar K. Serrano, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. E-mail: serra061@umn.edu*

*https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.13287*

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