Kidney Donation From a Patient Who Underwent Endovascular Aneurysm Repair.

Kidney Donation From a Patient Who Underwent Endovascular Aneurysm Repair.
Exp Clin Transplant. 2018 Jun 28;:
Authors: Park H, Park SJ, Kyong K, Cho HR
Abstract
Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation in Korea. There are no reports of patients who have undergone endovascular aneurysm repair being considered as kidney donors. We successfully performed kidney transplant procedures in a 62-year-old man and a 57-year-old man using kidneys recovered from a 67-year-old female brain-dead donor who underwent endovascular aneurysm repair 6 months before organ retrieval. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of transplants performed with organs from a donor who previously underwent endovascular aneurysm repair.
PMID: 29957157 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - June 28, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Park H, Park SJ, Kyong K, Cho HR Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research