Combined heart-kidney transplantation with single-donor allografts

Simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation from a single donor.

OBJECTIVE There are no guidelines to establish the indications and contraindications for a simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation. We report our single-institutional experience with simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation. METHODS Retrospective chart review. RESULTS Between 1995 and 2006, 13 patients with co-existing end-stage heart and renal failure underwent simultaneous hear...

Combined Kidney-Liver, Heart-Liver, and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantations from a Single Deceased Donor

Splitting the liver for two adults to increase the donor pool is still a debated issue, especially for combined organ transplantation. We described a case of liver-splitting procedure for two adults, which was successful even in the presence of combined organ transplantation. Three adult combined organ transplantations from one deceased donor were performed, with, use of split liver grafts in t...

First combined heart-kidney transplantation in Israel.

[Renal graft outcome in patients with combined heart-kidney transplantation].

INTRODUCTION Improvement in surgical and organ preservation techniques and immunosuppressive therapy has permitted multiorganic transplants in patients needing both heart and kidney organs in a synchronous or asynchronous way. OBJECTIVES To review our results in renal transplants in those patients with both heart and kidney transplants. MATERIAL AND METHOD Retrospective study of the 7 patie...

impact of donor source on the outcome of live donor kidney transplantation: a single center experience

patients and methods from march 1976 to december 2013, the number of patients that underwent living renal transplantation sharing at least one hla haplotype with their donors was 2,485. we divided these patients into two groups: (1) 2,075 kidney transplant recipients (1,554 or 74.9% male and 521 or 25.1% female) for whom the donors were living related, (2) 410 kidney transplant recipients (297 ...