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To the Editor: The use of kidneys from elderly donors may permit more transplantations, but it has been associated with poorer outcomes than transplantations performed with kidneys from younger donors.¹ According to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, the rates of graft loss and patient death among recipients of grafts from donors 70 years of age or older are 24% and 21% higher, respectively, than rates among recipients of grafts from donors 60 to 69 years of age.² We previously reported that the outcomes of transplantations performed with kidneys from donors older than 60 years of age were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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