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In our previous study, we demonstrated that high-dose 60Co irradiation was able to prevent rejection of canine tracheal allografts. To determine the maximum possible length of these grafts, in the present study we attempted to transplant five-ring and ten-ring tracheal allografts in two groups of five dogs each. Either five or ten rings were excised from donor tracheas and irradiated with 100,000 cGy of 60Co. The irradiated tracheal grafts were transplanted to replace either five- or ten-ring sections of the mediastinal tracheas removed from the recipient dogs. The grafts were covered with omental pedicles and no immunosuppressants were used. Graft incorporation was achieved in four of the five dogs in the five-ring group, and three of these dogs survived for more than 700 days. However, four of the five animals in the ten-ring group died from tracheostenosis accompanied by ischemia within 3 weeks. These findings demonstrate the impossibility of performing ten-ring tracheal allotransplantation using irradiated grafts, even with omentopexy.
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Yokomise, H., Inui, K., Wada, H. et al. The infeasibility of using ten-ring irradiated grafts for tracheal allotransplantation even with omentopexy. Surg Today 26, 427–430 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311930
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311930