From the Department of Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Taleghani Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. Iran
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The vascular complications, their management and results of treatment in
417 consecutive renal transplantations performed at Taleghani Hospital from September
1989 to December 1997, are presented. There were 7 (1.6%) vascular
complications. Among them renal artery stenosis occurred in 2 cases (0.4%), renal
artery thrombosis in 2 cases (0.4%), renal vein thrombosis in one case (0.2%),
bleeding from the venous suture line in the immediate peri operative period in one
case and renal pelvic necrosis in another one. Arterial reconstruction was performed
in 2 patients and allograft removal took place in 3 patients. There was no
death due to vascular complication.