Donor Characteristics and Short-Term Kidney Allograft Outcomes

As the field of kidney transplantation searches for new ways to expand utilization of deceased donor kidneys while maintaining adequate outcomes, learning from past experience and deciding on the most promising avenues to expand practice continue. In the article by Helantera et al. (1), data from patients in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients were used to study the association of older donor age and cold ischemia time—both known...