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Murine Kidney Transplant Technique
Published on: October 20, 2015
[100 renal transplantations with intravesical implantation of the ureter]
Abstract:
Transplantation of the kidney is nowadays a common therapeutic method. During the past 30 years in the transplantation centre of IKEM more than 1200 transplantations were performed. The authors present a group of 100 patients where the ureter of the transplanted Kidney was attached to the urinary bladder of the recipient by intravesical technique. With regard to the low incidence of fistulas and the easy solution of complications this technique can be widely used in clinical transplantation programmers.
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