Horseshoe kidney for transplant: report of 3 cases.
Owing to the limited donor pool at transplant centers, grafts may be taken from marginal donors with congenital abnormalities, one of the most common of which is a fusion abnormality. Horseshoe kidneys may be transplanted to a single recipient en bloc or to 2 recipients after division. In our clinic, 3 grafts (1 obtained from a living donor and 2 from a deceased donor) were successfully transplanted to 3 patients. In select patients, horseshoe kidneys may be used for transplant.
Dinckan
Ayhan
A
Akdeniz University Transplantation Center, Antalya, Turkey. adinckan@akdeniz.edu.tr
Tekin
Ahmet
A
Turkyilmaz
Serdar
S
Kocak
Huseyin
H
Gurkan
Alihan
A
Erdogan
Okan
O
Tuncer
Murat
M
Demirbas
Alper
A
Malek-Hosseini
Seyed Ali
SA
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors