title: [Vascular bench surgery in renal transplant].
abstract: The development in the number of patients for renal transplants has not been matched to the kidneys supplied. On this subject the authors think that this chronic deficit could be improved by making use of all the organs by using a series of technical means during bench surgery; which enable optimisation of use of kidneys with vascular abnormalities or those injured upon removal. The authors report their experience of 450 renal transplants operated between January 1981 and December 1985 and of the evolution vascular bench surgical techniques which enable use of a considerable number of kidneys which would otherwise have been discarded. Moreover, it helped the implant, shortened surgery time without prolonging hot ischemia, and did not increase the number of complications.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Chirugid Generale e dei Trapianti d'Organo, Università degli Studi, Genova.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Casolino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paraluppi
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Manolitsi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antonucci
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Tommasi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arcuri
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Valente
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D012079:Renal Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures