Effect of donor age and parent-to-child transplant on living-related donor kidney transplantation: a single center's experience of 236 cases

Abstract

To study the impact of parent-to-child transplant and older donor age on recipients' post-transplant creatinine levels, a total of 236 patients who received living donor kidney transplantation were evaluated for kidney viability based on creatinine (Cr) level. Of the 236 pairings, 113 (48%) were parent-to-child followed by sibling transplants (66, 30%). Recipient Cr levels were significantly higher at 6 months and 3 years post-transplant in the parent-to-child transplants compared to other donor–recipient relationships. In addition, donor age (average age: 44.1?±?11.5; range: 19–66) contributed to higher recipient post-transplant Cr levels (p?p?