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A simple new technique to prevent bleeding in transplant nephrectomy
Author(s) -
GHINOLFI DAVIDE,
ARCURI VALENTINO,
FONTANA IRIS,
BEATINI MARCO,
BERTOCCHI MASSIMO,
VALENTE UMBERTO
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2005.01082.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , simple (philosophy) , renal transplant , surgery , urology , transplantation , kidney , philosophy , epistemology
Renal transplantectomy is still a frequent procedure for a transplant surgeon. Nevertheless, it is constantly marred by complications, first of all bleeding. In fact, the local circumstances after the operation and the general health state of the uremic patients lead to a high incidence of this complication. To avoid this, we adopt a particular technique for renal extracapsular transplantectomy, performing three running sutures between the two faces of the renal capsule. This prevents the formation of the hematoma which is the basis of the continuous bleeding and following infection. We collected a series of nine patients who underwent transplantectomy in which we used this technique. No complications were noted.