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Pediatric kidney transplants with multiple renal arteries show no increased risk of complications compared to single renal artery grafts.
Riella, Juliano; Tabbara, Marina M; Alvarez, Angel; DeFreitas, Marissa J; Chandar, Jayanthi; Gaynor, Jeffrey J; González, Javier; Ciancio, Gaetano.
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  • Riella J; Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • Tabbara MM; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • Alvarez A; Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • DeFreitas MJ; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • Chandar J; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • Gaynor JJ; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • González J; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
  • Ciancio G; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, United States.
Front Pediatr ; 10: 1058823, 2022.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36589161
Background: Kidney allografts with multiple renal arteries (MRA) are not infrequent and have been historically associated with a higher risk of developing vascular and urologic complications. Reports of kidney transplantation using MRA allografts in the pediatric population remain scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate if transplantation of allografts with MRA with a surgical intent of creating a single arterial inflow using vascular reconstruction techniques when required, and without the routine use of surgical drains or ureteral stents, is associated with an increased risk of complications when compared to single renal artery (SRA) grafts. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed all pediatric renal transplant recipients performed by a single surgeon at our center between January 2015 and June 2022. Donor and recipient demographics, intraoperative data, and recipient outcomes were included. Recipients were divided into two groups based on SRA vs. MRA. Baseline variables were described using frequency distributions for categorical variables and means and standard errors for continuous variables. Comparisons of those distributions between the two groups were performed using standard chi-squared and t-tests. Time-to-event distributions were compared using the log-rank test. Results: Forty-nine pediatric transplant recipients were analyzed. Of these, 9 had donors with MRA (Group 1) and 40 had donors with SRA (Group 2). Native kidney and liver mobilization was performed in 44.4% (4/9) of Group 1 vs. 60.0% (24/40) of Group 2 cases (p = 0.39). There were no cases of delayed graft function or graft primary nonfunction. No surgical drainage or ureteral stents were used in any of the cases. One patient in Group 2 developed a distal ureter stricture. The geometric mean serum creatinine at 6- and 12-months posttransplant was 0.7 */ 1.2 and 0.9 */ 1.2 mg/dl in Group 1 and 0.7 */ 1.1 and 0.7 */ 1.1 mg/dl in Group 2. Two death-censored graft failures were observed in Group 2, with no significant difference observed between the two groups (p = 0.48). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that pediatric renal transplantation with MRA grafts, using a surgical approach to achieve a single renal artery ostium, can be safely performed while achieving similar outcomes as SRA grafts and with a low complication rate.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Etiology_studies / Risk_factors_studies Idioma: En Revista: Front Pediatr Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Suiza

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Etiology_studies / Risk_factors_studies Idioma: En Revista: Front Pediatr Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Suiza