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. 2018 May 16;2018:4141756. doi: 10.1155/2018/4141756

Table 2.

Characteristics of donors older than 60 years according to period and transplant category.

Period Pre-DKTa DKT eraa
Tx category SKTpre SKTlr SKThr DKT
n 170 33 51 48
M/F 84/86 18/15 26/25 27/21
Low-risk ECD, n 48 33
 (i) Age, yrs 64.2 ± 2.8 63.8 ± 2.5
High-risk ECD, n 103 51 48
 (i) Age, yrs 67.2 ± 4.7 71.2 ± 5.4 75.3 ± 4.8
 (ii) Donors older than 70 yrs, n (%) 32 (31) 32 (63)° 43 (69)°
 (iii) Donors older than 70 yrs, age 73.1 ± 2.0 74.4 ± 4.1 76.6 ± 3.7°
 (iv) Arterial hypertension 55 (53) 23 (45) 30 (62)
 (v) Diabetes 9 (9) 5 (10) 6 (12)
 (vi) CV cause of death 60 (58) 17 (33)+ 23 (48)

a“pre-DKT”, 1 Jan, 2000, to 30 Nov, 2010; “DKT era”, 1 Dec, 2010–31 Dec, 2015; SKT: solitary kidney transplant; suffix defines donor type: ECD: ECD from pre-DKT era, clinical risk undefined; lr, hr: ECD according to clinical low (no biopsy) or high risk (with kidney biopsy); DKT: dual kidney transplant; CV: cerebrovascular; P < 0.0001 by ANOVA, and P < 0.05 or less by any intercategory comparisons; °P < 0.01 versus ECDpre; +P < 0.05 versus ECDpre.