Abstract
The transplantation of organs has been one of the most notable advances in medicine in the last 30 years. Indeed, kidney transplantation has become so frequent and so successful that it is viewed as almost routine. Today the public expects that any suitable patient requiring a renal transplant will receive one after an acceptable waiting period. There are, however, still 8,000 patients in the UK on dialysis and the waiting list for transplants has increased from around 2,500 to over 4,000 in the last 5 years. It is therefore imperative that the number of kidneys available for transplantation is maximised and the quality optimised. This chapter will deal with the subject of kidney retrieval from the cadaveric donor. Since kidney retrieval is increasingly accomplished as part of multiple organ retrieval, it will be considered in that setting.
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Lavery, G. (1992). The cadaveric donor. In: McGeown, M.G. (eds) Clinical Management of Renal Transplantation. Developments in Nephrology, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7961-2_10
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