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Transplantation of a horseshoe kidney.

Salehipour M, Bahador A, Salahi H, Nikeghbalian S, Jalaeian H, Davari HR, Malek-Hosseini SA

Department of Organ Transplantation, Nemazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. Salehipour@sums.ac.ir

Experience with horseshoe kidney transplantation is limited. Horseshoe kidney may be underutilized for transplantation because of the greater incidence of vascular and other associated urological anomalies. Nowadays, owing to a greater number of patients waiting for a kidney donation and to a shortage of organs donated, more suitable organ acceptance criteria have been formulated. The aim of this paper is to present the first Iranian experience with horseshoe kidney transplantation.

Published 19 March 2007 in Arch Iran Med, 10(2): 239-41.
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