Transplantation in the Elderly Patient  

Oleh:

Shaw, Byers W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Surgical Clinics of North America (Keterangan: ada di ClinicalKey) vol. 74 no. 2 (Apr. 1994), page 389.

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As protocols of immunosuppression improve in selectivity and, more importantly, as clinicians become more adept at tailoring the degree of immunosuppression to the needs of individual patients, both enthusiasm and success with organ transplantation in the elderly will improve. This has particular relevance as the average age of the population is increasing. Arbitrary age limits, largely the products of the 1970s and early 1980s, have now been abandoned. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm to demonstrate skill in treating the older patient must be tempered by an understanding of the extreme shortage of available donor organs. In terms of life-years saved, the older patient offers much less potential than younger patients. At some point, the coexistence of other life-threatening illnesses in older patients must influence the desire to save older lives.

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