← brief for 2026-09-14 · Transplant & xeno
Outcome after renal transplantation utilizing octogenarian donors- retrospective single-center analysis within the Eurotransplant region.
Key takeaways
There are not enough donor kidneys, and long waits make older patients sicker. European programs now accept kidneys from donors in their 80s to shorten those waits. This hospital reviewed its own past transplants using those very old donor kidneys and reported how the patients and the organs did. It is a look back at one center's records, so it shows what happened there, not proof that donor age caused the results.
Who did this work
Kleine-Doepke D (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Beetz O (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Hinze C (Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.) · Zwirner U (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · van Beekum C (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Felgendreff P (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Quante M (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Kulik U (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Schmelzle M (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.) · Grannas G (Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. [email protected].)
Source
Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-11
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-026-04255-4