Abstract
We report on a trial of partial kidney transplantation performed on a low body weight child with impaired cardiac function due to mitral valve stenosis and uremic cardiomyopathy. The weight of the donated kidney was successfully reduced by one-third using bench surgery in order to obtain sufficient graft perfusion and function. Our procedure is justified when a graft is too large to be adequately perfused in a recipient suffering from cardiac failure.
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Takahashi, K., Kawaguchi, H., Yagisawa, T. et al. Partial kidney transplantation: a successful kidney transplantation in a child with severe cardiac failure by surgical mass reduction of an adult donor kidney. Transpl Int 6, 173–175 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00336364
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00336364