Living Donor Kidney Transplantation for a Recipient after 41 Years of Hemodialysis

Autor: Kosuke Tanaka, Yuji Hidaka, Shigeyoshi Yamanaga, Kohei Kinoshita, Akari Kaba, Mariko Toyoda, Hiroshi Yokomizo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Transplantology, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-3943
DOI: 10.3390/transplantology3010001
Popis: Due to atrophic bladder, patients undergoing long-term dialysis experience vesicoureteral reflux and complicated urinary tract infections after kidney transplantation. A 58-year-old woman underwent living donor kidney transplantation after 41 years of dialysis. She had no contraindications, with good cardiac function and minimal artery calcification despite the long history of hemodialysis. Immunosuppression was initiated with tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisolone, and basiliximab. Ureteroneocystostomy with an antireflux technique was carefully conducted as her bladder volume was 15 mL. The postoperative clinical course was uneventful with immediate graft function. The bladder volume gradually increased to 81 mL at discharge, 3 weeks postoperatively. The patient was initially depressed due to frequent urination early post-transplant but recovered soon after as the bladder volume gradually increased to 400 mL. The patient has not yet reported a urinary tract infection episode. This case highlights living donor kidney transplantation-induced recovery of bladder function with careful ureteroneocystostomy, despite the long dialysis history.
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