Long-Term Safety of Living Kidney Donors Aged 60 and Older

Abstract In Japan, kidney transplantation procedures are usually dependent upon live donors. As the recipient ages have been increasing, so has there been a corollary increase in the age of the live donors. Despite this being controversial, the use of older donors is becoming increasingly common. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the long-term safety of accepting older living kidney donors and graft survival rates. We retrospectively analyzed long-term donor outcomes for consecutive patients at our institution between January 1990 and December 2011. Older live kidney donors were defined as ≥60 years and younger live kidney donors were defined as  2 ) than younger donors (85.8 ± 14.6 mL/min/1.73 m 2 ; P P