Slovenská chirurgia 2/2013

Surgical challenge: kidney retransplantation

In retrospective analysis of our group of patients in years 1989–2010 we focused on occurrence of surgical complications of kidney retransplantations and comparison results to larger transplantcenters in purpose to estimate surgical risks of kidney retransplantations in our conditions. The limitations of our study are small group of patients and short time follow-up, thus we are not able to phrase responsible conclusions. We found our results comparable to larger analyses in world literature and our experience lead us to conclusion that we consider this method safe also in our conditions and we recommend it to patients after previous graft failure.

Keywords: kidney retransplantation, surgical complications.