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SALVAGE OF A LIVE-RELATED TRANSPLANT KIDNEY USING AN INTERPOSITION POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE VASCULAR GRAFT: A UNIQUE CASE

APOSTOLOS KANDİLİS, PİERPAOLO Dİ COCCO, POYYAMOZHİ RAJAGOPA, L NADEY S HAKİM

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation - 2016;14(6):679-681

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Renal and Transplant Services, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

 

We describe a case of polytetrafluoroethylene vascular graft interposition between the internal iliac artery and the renal artery in a live-related kidney transplant. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first case in the literature that describes the salvage of a transplant kidney using this technique.