Use of spiral vein graft in living donor renal transplantation.
Prosthetic material or vascular homografts have been used for vascular reconstruction in organ transplants. An alternative procedure using the spiral saphenous vein graft to lengthen 19 short-living donor kidney vessels is described.
Nghiem
Dai D
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Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA. dnghiem@wpahs.org
D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*