Older living kidney donor age may be negative predictor of recipient, graft survival

Compared with living donors aged 50 to 70 years, donor age older than 70 years may be a negative predictor of kidney transplant and graft survival, according to a presentation at the American Transplant Congress.

“I set out to see if the data and outcomes of a national cohort met my anecdotal findings that living kidney donor transplants from donors [older than] 70 years don’t perform as well compared to their younger donor counterparts regardless of measured donor GFR and noted that this had not been studied in a contemporary cohort in the past 10 years,” Adam Bregman, MD, MBA, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension at the University of Minnesota, told Healio. Read more in Healio.