Effect of Recipient Age on USA Primary Pancreas Transplant Outcome 1998 - 2003 Cases

Primary DD recipient age groups: <20 (n=17) 1%; 20-29 (n=573) 9%; 30-39 (n=2,591) 40%; 40-49 (n=2,430) 37%; 50-59 (n=819) 13%; >60 (n=61) 1%.  Recipients >50: SPK 13%; PAK 14%; PTA 16%; (p=.001). The number of children was very low in all categories. For patient survival, it might be expected that rates would be lower with increasing age.  This was the case for SPK, but there was no definite relation for PAK or PTA (Figure 14a). Patient survival rates were high in all age groups across categories: <60 years 93-100% and >60 years 90-100%. For SPK 1-year kidney survival, GSR for recipients <20 years was highest at 100% and lowest for the >60 years group at 78%. For pancreas graft survival rates (Figure 14b), age had little effect for SPK, 83-85%, but did have significant effect in PAK and PTA. In these categories, PAK recipients >60 years had the highest GSR at 1 year, 89%; PTA recipients <20 years had the lowest at 1 year: 50%.  This difference was due to rejection loss rates (Figure 14c): 0-11% across age groups in all categories except PTA <20 years old where the rejection loss rate was 40%.

Figure 14a

Figure 14b

Figure 14c

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