Two Cases of Combined Transplantation of Liver and Kidney from Two Living Donors.
- Author:
Sung Ho CHOI
1
;
Dong Goo KIM
;
In Sung MOON
;
Sang Tae AHN
;
Myung Duk LEE
;
Yong Bok KOH
;
In Chul KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. DGKim@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Combined liver-kidney transplantation
- MeSH:
Allografts;
Hemodynamics;
Humans;
Kidney Diseases;
Kidney Transplantation;
Kidney*;
Liver*;
Living Donors*;
Mortality
- From:The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
2002;16(1):144-148
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Combined liver-kidney transplantation has gained increasing popularity and applied for the patient with end-stage liver and kidney disease. There are some controversies about the sequence of transplantation. In general, the liver allograft is temporary placed before the kidney allograft. This method may provide some immunologic advantages that liver allograft may protect concomitantly transplantated kidney from rejection. In our opinion, kidney-liver sequence may provide several benefits in hemodynamic stability, safer monitoring and planned fluid replacement by urine flow assessment. Combined liver-kidney transplantation requires only conventional immunosuppressive drug dosage as in kidney transplantation alone. And combined liver-kidney transplantation can be performed with acceptable morbidity and mortality, and have exellent long term result. We present two cases of combined liver-kidney transplantation performed by kidney- liver sequence for complex end organ failure.
