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Partial kidney transplantation: a successful kidney transplantation in a child with severe cardiac failure by surgical mass reduction of an adult donor kidney

✍ Scribed by Kota Takahashi; Hiroshi Kawaguchi; Takashi Yagisawa; Kazunari Tanabe; Hayakazu Nakazawa; Motoshi Hattori; Hiroshi Toma; Katsumi Ito; Tetsuzo Agishi; Kazuo Ota; Makoto Nakazawa

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 615 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0934-0874
DOI: 10.1007/bf00336364

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✦ Synopsis

We report on a trial of partial kidney transplantation performed on a low body weight child with impaired cardiac function due to mitral valve stenosis and uremic cardiomyopathy. The weight of the donated kidney was successfully reduced by one-third using bench surgery in order to obtain sufficient graft perfusion and function. Our procedure is justified when a graft is too large to be adequately perfused in a recipient suffering from cardiac failure.