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The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 1998 December;39(6):765-7

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language: English

Successful surgical management of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in a renal transplant patient. A case report

Lachachi F., Ostyn E., Sekkal S., Peyronnet P.*, Cornu E., Laskar M., Christides C.

From the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Department of Nephrology Dupuytren University Hospital Limoges Cedex, France

With extend­ed indi­ca­tions for ­renal trans­plan­ta­tion and increas­ing sur­vi­val, it can be expect­ed ­that ath­e­ros­cle­rot­ic vas­cu­lar dis­ease in the ­post-trans­plant ­patient ­will ­become ­more fre­quent. The ­authors ­report a ­case of a rup­tured abdom­i­nal aor­tic aneu­rysm in a ­renal trans­plant recip­i­ent. A tem­po­rary axil­lo-femo­ral ­shunt was ­used to main­tain per­fu­sion of the ­renal ­graft dur­ing aor­tic ­cross-clamp­ing. They ­review the lit­er­a­ture and dis­cuss the avail­able meth­ods for pre­serv­ing ­renal func­tion.