来自老年捐赠者的肾脏移植预后良好

 
根据一项最新研究发现，如果能够在移植之前进行评估，超过60岁的老年供体肾脏的预后良好。

研究人员比较了62例患者的预后，将事先进行组织学评估的来自老年捐赠者的肾脏与相匹配的来自老年或者较年轻的248例捐赠者进行了比较。所有接受移植的患者都超过了50岁。肾脏进行了组织学评估，评分分为0-12。0-3分的肾脏用于单侧移植，4-6分的用于双侧移植，7分以上的予以丢弃。

研究人员得出结论，接受超过60岁捐赠者的单侧或者双侧肾脏移植长期生存率十分理想，只要移植物在移植之前接受过组织学评估。这种方法能够帮助扩大肾脏移植的器官捐赠范围。

Kidney Transplants Okay From Older Donors
 
Kidney transplants from donors older than 60 years of age can have a good outcome, providing the grafts are evaluated prior to implantation, according to a new study.

Researchers compared the outcomes of 62 patients given histologically evaluated kidneys from older donors with those of 248 matched recipients given non-evaluated kidneys from either older or younger donors. All of the recipients were older than 50 years of age.
The kidneys were histologically evaluated and scored for a global rating of 0-12. Kidneys with a score of zero to three were used in single transplants, those scoring four to six were earmarked for dual transplants, and those rated seven or worse were discarded.

The researchers concluded that the long-term survival of single or dual kidney grafts from donors older than 60 years of age is excellent, provided that the grafts are evaluated histologically before implantation. This approach could help to expand the donor-organ pool for kidney transplantation.