Successful in France, benefits of older kidney donors could outweigh risks in US

From Healio:

"Increasing kidney transplants remains a challenge in the United States but adopting successful practices by France and other European countries of accepting older organs could help, researchers said.

'The Eurotransplant senior program [in France] does preferentially allocate kidneys from donors who are greater than 65 years old to recipients greater than 65 years old, and there is preference to do local allocation to reduce cold ischemia,' Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, a transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said at the virtual American Transplant Congress. 'By contrast, the U.S. has no preferential allocation of kidneys from older donors.'”