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Case Reports
. 2015 May 22:2015:bcr2015209778.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-209778.

Living kidney donation following nephrectomy due to pelviureteric junction obstruction

Benjamin Soukup  1 , Anil Vaidya  2 , David Cranston  3
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Case Reports

Living kidney donation following nephrectomy due to pelviureteric junction obstruction

Benjamin Soukup et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

A 49-year-old man presented with a 15-year history of problematic pelviureteric junction obstruction of his left kidney. Surgical management had failed to sufficiently control his symptoms and he was keen to have the kidney removed. Following preoperative discussion, the patient consented to his kidney being used for transplant. Following a total nephrectomy, the kidney was successfully transplanted into a 61-year-old woman, with a cold ischaemic time of 3 h and 22 min. There was primary function in the transplanted kidney and creatinine at 6 weeks was 60. This case highlights the potential for using organs with pelviureteric junction obstruction for living donor transplant and thereby expanding the donor pool.

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Renal CT scan with contrast demonstrating left-sided hydronephrosis secondary to pelviureteric junction obstruction and left hydrocalycosis.
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