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A Rat Orthotopic Renal Transplantation Model for Renal Allograft Rejection
Published on: February 2, 2022
[Intraoperative hemodynamics in the recipients of kidney allografts from living related donors]
Abstract:
Electromagnetic flowmetry was performed in 53 recipients of kidneys from related donors to investigate intraoperative hemodynamics and its relationships with such factors as the degree of histocompatibility between the donor and recipient, of blood relationship, renal laterality. The real total blood flow was compared to proper flow according to Inke formula. The result of this comparison gave evidence for angiospasm or vasodilation. The range of real flow was much wider in the recipients than in donors. This reflected much more frequent angiospasms and vasodilation in the recipients: the transplants displayed angiospasms in 26.2% of the cases. The angiospastic patients developed rejection crises 2 times more frequently than those without the spasms. It is concluded that intraoperative vasoconstriction denotes greater probability to develop rejection crisis in early postoperative period.
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