PURPOSE Living donor kidneys with multiple arteries are routinely procured laparoscopically. We aim to present our experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) and to compare the graft function and outcome between cases with single versus multiple arteries. METHODS We compared the demographic data, operation time, warm ischemia time, rejection rate, and graft function between LDN kidn...

A congenital solitary kidney with multiple renal arteries is a rare congenital abnormality that can occur in the presence of multiple other anomalies. We describe an atypical case of a right congenital solitary kidney with three renal arteries (RA) one main RA and two additional renal arteries in a 75-year-old woman with uterine didelphys. The main RA had an intraluminal diameter larger than th...

Renal transplantation represents the best available replacement treatment for patients with end stage renal disease patients than performing dialysis, and living donor transplantation has been shown to offer better graft survival than cadaver donor renal transplantation. It was demonstrated that kidneys from living, unrelated donors succeed as well as kidneys obtained from brothers and sisters ...

Abstract The renal arteries arise from the lateral side of abdominal aorta at L2 vertebral level, just below origin superior mesenteric artery. Multiple aberrant can pose difficulties in transplantation, interventional radiological and urological procedures, artery embolization, angioplasty, or vascular reconstruction for congenital acquired lesions. We present a case left kidney supplied by al...

The segmental branches of the renal artery vary in number and origin. The 1998, Terminologia Anatomica homologates two branches of the renal artery (anterior, posterior) and five segmental arteries: four from the anterior branch and one from the posterior one. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the renal artery branching pattern, the number and origin of the segmental arteries, as well as...

Elevations in transmural pressure increase active vascular tone in arteries from most vascular beds, and this myogenic response has been shown to play an important role in the regulation of blood flow in the kidney and other organs. The myogenic response in isolated perfused arteries is associated with depolarization of vascular smooth muscle cells and a rise in intracellular calcium concentrat...

The response of rabbit renal arteries to acetylcholine and its endothelial modulation in diabetes were investigated. Acetylcholine induced concentration-related endothelium-dependent relaxation of renal arteries that was significantly more potent in diabetic rabbits than in control rabbits. Pretreatment with N(G)-nitro-L-arginine (L-NOArg), indomethacin, or L-NOArg plus indomethacin induced par...