TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergency Autopsy for the Selection of Donor Kidneys
T2 - The Use of “Senile” Kidneys
AU - Ende, Norman
AU - Zukoski, Charles F.
PY - 1965/3/15
Y1 - 1965/3/15
N2 - A review of 50 consecutive autopsies, at a hospital caring for an older age group, revealed that approximately 34% of the kidneys would have been potentially useful as donor kidneys. To evaluate most of these cases as donors would have necessitated an emergency autopsy including microscopic examination. Even among patients who died after the age of 60, the kidneys, in many instances, could probably have functioned adequately if transplanted, in spite of some evidence of senile nephrosclerosis. Of five patients—recipients of six donor kidneys —three are still alive after 14, 12, and 6 months, respectively. Ages of the donors at death were 27, 64, and 47 years, respectively.
AB - A review of 50 consecutive autopsies, at a hospital caring for an older age group, revealed that approximately 34% of the kidneys would have been potentially useful as donor kidneys. To evaluate most of these cases as donors would have necessitated an emergency autopsy including microscopic examination. Even among patients who died after the age of 60, the kidneys, in many instances, could probably have functioned adequately if transplanted, in spite of some evidence of senile nephrosclerosis. Of five patients—recipients of six donor kidneys —three are still alive after 14, 12, and 6 months, respectively. Ages of the donors at death were 27, 64, and 47 years, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1001/jama.1965.03080110026005
DO - 10.1001/jama.1965.03080110026005
M3 - Article
C2 - 14260222
AN - SCOPUS:33750016862
SN - 0098-7484
VL - 191
SP - 902
EP - 904
JO - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
IS - 11
ER -