Repeat Pancreas Transplant Procedures: Recipient Selection and Surgical Techniques

Surgical Management of the Kidney Transplant Recipient

Fertility-preserving surgical procedures, techniques.

As a result of the trend toward late childbearing, fertility preservation has become a major issue in young women with gynaecological cancer. Fertility-sparing treatments have been successfully attempted in selected cases of cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer, and gynaecologists should be familiar with fertility-preserving options in women with gynaecological malignancies. Options to pres...

Surgical procedures not connected with transplantation in patients after kidney or kidney and pancreas transplant with stable function of graft.

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to evaluate complication during and after surgical procedure without connection with transplantation among patients after kidney, kidney and pancreas transplantation with stable function of graft. MATERIAL AND METHODS 54 patients underwent 62 surgical procedures without connection with transplantation procedure. Main characteristic: standard immunosuppressi...

Unusual manifestation of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a renal transplant recipient

Cutaneous leishmaniasis may present as unusual manifestations in renal transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy. This misleading presentation, may delay the diagnosis and treatment. Moreover special caution must be taken in renal transplant recipients because of possible interactions between antimony compounds and cyclosporine metabolites. We report a 45-year old man with 5 years...

Dual Kidney Transplant: Clinical Experience and Overview of Surgical Techniques

Results: Two recipients had DKT as an En bloc from pediatric donors, whereas others had DKT from elderly donors. The mean surgical time was 5 hours 4 min (Range: 3 hours 40 min to 6 hours 24 min). Two patients had a complication of lymphocele and subsequent development of ureteric stricture. There was no vessel thrombosis and no urine leakage in this cohort. The creatinine level was 137 (± 37.4...