Renal Transplantation in Patients with Aortoiliac Prosthetic Grafts: A Case Report and Pertinent Review of Literature
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53688#.VM83PSzQrzE Author(s) Sachin Patil 1 , Harry Sun 2 , Stuart Geffner 2 , H. Stephen Fletcher 1,2 , Ronald S. Chamberlain 1,3,4 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Surgery, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, USA . 2 Department of Transplant, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, USA . 3 Department of Surgery, Saint George’s University School of Medicine, Saint George’s, Grenada . 4 Department of Surgery, Rutgers University, Newark, USA . ABSTRACT Renal transplantation in a patient with aortoiliac prosthetic graft is a unique challenge. It requires that the renal artery is anastomosed directly to the vascular prosthetic graft. Nearly 0.2%-1.7% of the patients with aortoiliac prosthesis require renal transplantation in their life time. Outcomes following such procedure are controversial and anecdotal. In this report we present a...