title: Use of spiral vein graft in living donor renal transplantation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA. dnghiem@wpahs.org
authors.forename: Dai D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Nghiem
mesh_terms: 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*