Title: [Diagnosis and treatment of vascular complications of external iliac arteries after kidney transplantation: a report of 6 cases].
Abstract: To explore the characteristics of external iliac artery vascular complications after renal transplantation and the diagnosis and treatment.We reviewed the clinical data of 6 patients with of external iliac artery vascular complications after renal transplantation from more than 2000 renal transplantation patients in the Transplantation Center of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University from 2001 to 2013, and analyzed the clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment.The renal allograft was removed in 5 of the 6 patients due to repeated external iliac artery hemorrhage: 2 patients were replaced the external iliac artery with reversed autogenous great saphenous vein, 2 patients underwent the bilateral femoral artery bypass surgery, and 1 was repaired the external iliac artery directly. The other 1 was resected the renal allograft and the involved external iliac arteries due to fungal mass in the external iliac artery. Among the 6 patients, except 1 patient died after the surgery of the repair of the external iliac artery, the other 5 are all alive.Vascular replacement and artery bypass are effective methods for patients with external iliac artery vascular complications after kidney transplantation.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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