Strategies for the successful transplantation of the horseshoe kidney.
Horseshoe kidney is probably the most common renal fusion anomaly. Horseshoe kidneys have been successfully transplanted en bloc into a single recipient or, alternatively, they have been divided and implanted into 2 patients. Despite these facts the use of horseshoe kidney allografts for transplantation is rare. We report a case of the successful transplantation of an en bloc horseshoe kidney into a single recipient. The evaluation of fused kidneys for transplantation, technical considerations and previously reported cases are discussed.
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Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors