Abdominal aorta transplantation after programmed cryopreservation

Abdominal aorta transplantation after programmed cryopreservation.

AIM To study the morphologic and cellular immunologic changes after homologous transplantation of the abdominal aorta in rats after programmed cryopreservation (-196 degrees). METHODS Abdominal aorta was harvested from anesthetized Spraque Dawley (SD) rats for cryopreservation (group B) or immediate implantation (group A). The survival rates and apoptotic rates of aortic endothelial cells (EC...

Abdominal bruit after renal transplantation.

Forty-seven recipients of renal allografts have been studied at varying intervals of up to five years after transplantation. Renal artery bruit occurred in eight of 16 patients observed over the first two post-transplant months and disappeared spontaneously in four of these. The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function. Renal bruits were audible in 10 patients examined...

Abdominal Aorta

Massive abdominal herniation after dual kidney transplantation

A 68-year-old man with end-stage renal disease of unknown cause received a dual non heart-beating renal allograft in October 2009. He had previously received peritoneal dialysis for 14 months. His postoperative course was complicated by cytomegalovirus disease, which resulted in a prolonged period of immobility and undernutrition. On recovery, massive abdominal herniation related to his dual tr...

Acute graft occlusion of abdominal aorta after anaphylaxis.

To cite: Watanuki S, Kinoshita K, Tokuda Y. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014203859 DESCRIPTION A 53-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a previous graft replacement surgery for Leriche syndrome presented with a 3 h history of generalised severe pruritus and vomiting which he developed soon after eating fried shrimp and rice. The p...