Sexual impotence: the overlooked complication of a second renal transplant.
The incidence of sexual impotence in 20 men who have received at least 2 kidney transplants was 65% compared to 10% after the first transplant. The importance was transient (2 to 4 months) in both affected men after the first transplant but permanent (2 to 10 years) in 6 men after the second operation. We attribute this increased percentage of impotence to the second end-to-end arterial anastomosis that requires division of the internal iliac arteries. We suggest that the second transplant be placed end-to-side into the common iliac artery.
D000328:Adult; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous