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Does Living Donor–Recipient Age Difference Matter in Long Term Outcome of Kidney Transplantation? Implication for Kidney Paired Donation
V. Kute, A. Vanikar, M. Gumber, H. Patel, P. Shah, D. Engineer, P. Modi, J. Rizvi, V. Shah, H. Trivedi

Background

Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) is a rapidly growing modality for facilitating living donor renal transplantation (LDRTx) for patients who are incompatible with their healthy living donors.

In a proposed KPD match, if an old donor–recipient pair is matched to a younger donor–recipient pair, young recipient may feel disadvantaged and therefore may be unwilling for exchange with an older donor. Refusal to participate in an exchange could limit the success of KPD program when donor pool is small.

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Conclusions

The age of a donor has little impact on the survival of transplanted kidney. Results of this study could persuade more people to take part in KPD programs. This study is important for policy/decision making in KPD when donor pool is limited.