Vascular Complications in 155 Consecutive Kidney Transplantations

Abstract

In 155 kidney transplantations in 142 patients a total of 19 arterial complications occurred: failing anastomosis in one patient, arterial occlusion in three, and stenosis in 15 patients. The occlusions led to graftectomy in all the cases. Arterial reconstruction was made in 3 patients with stenosis, but the blood pressure was normalized in only one patient.

Venous complications occurred in 28 patients: six cases of thrombosis in the graft vein, which in 5 of the patients led to graftectomy; two cases of hemorrhage from the venous anastomosis, 19 cases of peripheral vein thrombosis, and one case of fatal pulmonary embolism.