Transplantation of horseshoe kidneyinto single recipient

Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

“…Regarding ABO incompatible living donor transplantation, protocols which employ pretransplant antibody removal with specific immunoadsorption, immunoglobulin and anti-Cd20 antibody until immunoglobulin (IgG) and isoagglutinin (IgM) antibody titers of 1/8 or lower [192] or protocols which employ recipient preconditioning using rituximab and selective immunoadsorption to obtain reduction of isoagglutinin titers less than or equal to 1:4 have reported success in outcomes of ABO incompatible transplantation [193]. With careful patient management, including protocols to remove or lower donor antibodies, along with stronger immunosuppression and immune monitoring, excellent results are obtainable [194][195][196][197][198][199][200].…”

Transplantation of a Horseshoe Kidney into 2 Recipients

“…6] and to the inferior vena cava in 1 case [5], The renal vein of the transplant was anastomosed to the recipient's inferior vena cava in 1 case [4], The arterial anastomosis was performed between the transplant aorta and the recipient's iliac artery in 3 cases [3,4,6], between the transplant aorta and the recipient's aorta in 1 case [5], The reimplantation of the ureters on the bladder was per formed by two tunnels independently across the submu cosa [1], Nevertheless, in 2 cases [10,11] one single tunnel has been used for the reimplantation with good results.…”

“…According to the anatomical features (vascularization type, isthmic pa renchymal size), en bloc transplantation was performed to a single recipient [1,[3][4][5][6] or after isthmic section to 2 dif ferent recipients [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

Living-related transplantation of an ectopic pelvic kidney

“…Previous reports have described transplantation of horseshoe kidneys from cadaver donors (2,3). A Medline search revealed only two previously reported cases using ectopic pelvic kidneys for living-donor transplantation (4,5).…”