Article showing that kidneys from older donors perform acceptably attract attention

Aksel Foss

Results from a paper published in the journal "Transplantation" - entitled "Kidneys from deceased donors more than 75 years perform acceptably after transplantation" - has attracted considerable international attention. As a consequence, first author Axel Foss from the Section of Transplant Surgery is interviewed about the findings in the "Research highlights" column in the September issue of the prestigious "Nature Reviews Nephrology", under the headline "Transplantation: Kidneys from old donors: tackling the organ shortage".