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Of 1130 patients who had undergone a total of 1298 kidney transplantations, 40 developed a stenosis of the ureter (3.1%). In all of the transplants, the anastomosis between the ureter and the urinary bladder was established as extravesical ureteroneocystostomy. Up until 1984, in cases where an obstruction in the urinary tract was suspected, the diagnosis was made by an i. v. pyelogram or by nuclear scans of the transplant. Thereafter, in 28 patients, in cases of sonographically suspected stenosis of the ureter, the diagnosis was established by means of a simplified Whitaker test. Nearly one-half of the stenoses of the ureter developed within the first 3 months after transplantation. In five patients (12.5%) the stenosis developed significantly later, 3–10 years after kidney transplantation. Seventy percent of the stenoses were localized in the distal third of the ureter. About 75% of the surgically explored stenoses could be corrected by resection and reimplantation of the ureter. During the postoperative follow-up, restenosis occurred in three patients. At present, 62% of all patients whose ureteric stenoses were corrected have wellfunctioning kidney transplants.
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Keller, H., Nöldge, G., Wilms, H. et al. Incidence, diagnosis, and treatment of ureteric stenosis in 1298 renal transplant patients. Transplant Int 7, 253–257 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327152
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