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Safe utilization and long-term follow-up of 368 marginal kidneys
L Berardinelli1, M Raiteri, B Costantino
1Policlinico University Hospital, Vascular Surgery and Kidney Transplantation Unit, Milano, Italy.
Transplantation Proceedings
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
Three-hundred sixty-eight grafts of 1701 KTs performed during a 25-year period showed major anatomical anomalies: 358 kidneys presented an abnormal vascular supply, 8 organs had a double ureters, 2 were indivisible horseshoe kidneys. The outcome of these MKs is virtually identical (84%) to those obtained with transplant of normal grafts (85%). The advantages of ex vivo arterioplasty have been advocated.