title: Renal rupture after transplantation.
abstract: Nine instances of spontaneous allograft rupture have been identified in a series of 325 renal transplantations. Repair of the graft was accomplished in 4 cases. One graft functioned for five and one-half years, one kidney was removed immediately because of uncontrolled hemorrhage, and two grafts were subsequently removed because of rejection. Immediate nephrectomy was performed in 5 cases of irreversible rejection. The duration of ischemia and method of preservation appeared to have no etiologic importance. Evidence of severe acute rejection was present in all 9 cases. The recent increase in graft rupture parallels the increasing frequency of severe early acute rejection reactions.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous