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Murine Kidney Transplant Technique
Published on: October 20, 2015
Spinal Stroke following Kidney Transplant
Jayanthan B Subramanian1, Farjad Siddiqui1, Pranit N Chotai1
1Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA.
Abstract:
Complications are a part of surgery. Spinal infarctions are a dreaded complication of aortic surgery. We present a patient who developed a spinal infarct after a kidney transplant. We were unable to find a causative factor in our search for etiology. In our review of the literature, we were unable to find a similar report. We present this case report to highlight a rare complication of kidney transplantation and to reinforce that patients requiring kidney transplant are complex patients with multiple comorbidities that can cause a multitude of complications in the periop period.
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