[Results of kidney transplantation in patients over 60 years of age].

In the same measure as the age of population is growing, the importance of the problems rising by the renal transplantation in elder persons is increasing. At the University Hospital of Zurich 1313 kidney transplantations were performed between 1964 and 1990, 44 of them to patients who at the moment of operation were older than 60 years of age. The actuarial patient survival after 3 months reached 81%, after 1 year 74% and after 5 years 42%. The actuarial allograft survival after 3 months was 75%, after 1 year 67%, after 5 years 40%. The mortality was 131 per 1000, the mortality ratio compared to a standard population 6 times higher. The main causes of death were infections (52%) and cardiovascular diseases (28%). These results explain our opinion, that renal transplantation in elder patients should be indicated retentively.