Box 2.

Meeting the growing demand for kidney transplantation in older CKD patients

Preferential transplantation of organs from older donors to older recipients

Enlarge the donor pool by accepting expanded criteria donors: ≥60 years old or ≥50 with any of the following two conditions: history of hypertension, serum creatinine ≥1.5 mg/dL or death due to cerebrovascular accident.

“Old for old”: preferentially using kidneys from older living donors for older recipients

Transplanting two marginal kidneys instead of one

Adapted from reference 29