Should renal transplantation be offered to older patients?
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Should renal transplantation be offered to older patients?
general population of the same age is not striking. A Introduction Canadian study compared the patient survival of 284 transplant recipients above age 60 years with that of At the threshold of the millenium the industrial counthe sexand age-matched general population. The tries have to face the problem of an increasingly aged survival at 5 years was 75 and 88% respectively [6 ]. A population. B...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.3.315