title: An odd application of artificial vascular graft in the kidney transplantation of a patient with severe deep vein thrombosis: a case report.
abstract: Transplantation of a living-related donor kidney was performed for a 41-year-old man. The planned right donor nephrectomy from the patient's 64-year-old father was uneventful. However the recipient's bilateral iliac veins and inferior vena cava were occluded, requiring a connection of the donor renal vein to the recipient's right great saphenous vein using an artificial vascular graft. On postoperative day 9, the patient recovered normal renal function with a serum creatinine that gradually decreased to 1.399 mg/dL. Color Doppler and computed tomography angiography imaging showed patency of the artificial vascular graft with no evidence of thrombosis. In addition, warfarin was used to improve his protein S deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Center of Organ Transplantation, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007677:Kidney Function Tests; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000601:surgery; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*