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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 12:16:29-31.
doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2017.10.005. eCollection 2018 Jan.

A successful case of salvage kidney transplantation using the recipient gonadal vein to bypass a major outflow obstruction

Mahmoud Alameddine  1 , Ian Zheng  1 , Joshua S Jue  1 , Ali Yusufali  1 , Zhobin Moghadamyeghaneh  2 , Javier González  3 , Mahmoud Morsi  1 , Giselle Guerra  1 , Rodrigo Vianna  1 , Gaetano Ciancio  1
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A successful case of salvage kidney transplantation using the recipient gonadal vein to bypass a major outflow obstruction

Mahmoud Alameddine et al. Urol Case Rep. .
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Fig. 1
Schematic drawing depicts the steps of gonadal vein utilization to bypass the outflow obstruction.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Post-transplant MRI of abdomen demonstrates patent ovarian (blue arrow) and renal vein (yellow arrow). Note the ovarian vein dilation to compensate for the increase in renal blood flow. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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