Objective To evaluate the effect of living-related donor renal transplantation with mild renal arterial stenosis upon the early renal function and postoperative complications of the recipients.
Methods Clinical data of 14 donors and recipients undergoing living-related donor renal transplantation with mild renal arterial stenosis and 50 donors and recipients receiving standard living donor renal transplantation from healthy relatives were retrospectively analyzed. The levels of serum creatinine (Scr) in the donors were statistically compared between two groups. The serum levels of Scr at postoperative 1, 3 and 6 months in the recipients were statistically compared between two groups. The survival rate of kidney graft, and the incidences of delayed graft function (DGF), acute rejection and pulmonary infection were compared between two groups.
Results Postoperative Scr levels of the donors did not significantly differ between two groups(all P>0.05). The Scr levels of the recipients at postoperative 1, 3 and 6 months did not significantly differ between two groups (all P>0.05). The survival rate of kidney graft, and the incidences of DGF, acute rejection and pulmonary infection in the recipients did not significantly differ between two groups (all P>0.05).
Conclusions Living-related donor renal transplantation with mild renal arterial stenosis exerts no significant effect upon renal function and postoperative complication in the recipients, who are eligible for the donors for renal transplantation.
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