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Urologic complications after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: hand-sewn versus stapled duodenocystostomy
V Douzdjian1, K K Gugliuzza, J C Fish
1Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0542, USA.
Clinical Transplantation
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
Pancreas transplantation with bladder drainage of exocrine secretions may be associated with significant urologic complications. Stapled and hand-sewn duodenocystostomies were compared in 61 recipients of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants. Both methods resulted in similar urologic complication and allograft survival rates. Duodenal segment leaks were associated with significant morbidity and decreased patient and allograft survival.