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Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplantation
Published on: July 19, 2021
Abdominoplasty in Hemodialysis Patients Before Transplant
Paola Karina García1, Diana Carolina Vargas, Kateir Contreras
1From the Nephrology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, and the Medical School, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC, Colombia.
Abstract:
Morbid obesity in patients with chronic kidney disease is a contraindication for inclusion on the kidney transplant waitlist.Despite intentional weightloss,the persistence of the abdominal adipose panniculus poses postoperative risks, such as infection of the surgical site and seromas. We describe 2 cases of patients on hemodialysis who had a body mass index greater than 35 kg/m² who underwent abdominoplasty before transplant without perioperative complications. One patient received a living-related kidney transplant (donor was the brother) without complications.
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