Use of end-to-side arterial and venous anastomosis techniques for renal transplantation in two dogs

Abstract

The end-to-side anastomosis technique described here, which is a preferred method in human medicine, was successful, providing an alternative to other renal transplantation techniques in dogs. Additional studies are needed to determine whether any vascular anastomosis technique is preferable for use in dogs requiring renal transplantation.

Successful Management of Multidrug-Resistant <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Pneumonia after Kidney Transplantation in a Dog

“…Most of these studies have focused on the effectiveness of immunosuppression protocols, surgical techniques and the survival of the animal recipients [4, 9, 17]. Although some reports have briefly described successful recovery from bacterial complications that were not due to MDR strains, others have presented cases in which the infections did not respond well to treatment with antimicrobials [9, 11].…”

Validation of a model of feline ureteral obstruction as a tool for teaching microsurgery to veterinary surgeons

“…The expert microsurgeon group comprised 7 board‐certified veterinary surgeons satisfying the inclusion criteria . Experience levels ranged from 10‐23 years experience with ureteral and vascular microsurgery such as ureterotomy, ureteral resection and anastomosis, neoureterostomy, neoureterocystostomy, ureteroneocystostomy, and microvascular anastomosis as for renal transplantation.…”

“…Experienced surgeons were recruited for their expertise relating to microsurgery . Specifically, criteria for inclusion of expert microsurgeons were >10 years experience with ureteral surgery, performance of at least 10‐15 feline ureteral surgeries or comparable laboratory animal microsurgeries per year, and significant experience with feline renal transplantation.…”

“…Specifically, criteria for inclusion of expert microsurgeons were >10 years experience with ureteral surgery, performance of at least 10‐15 feline ureteral surgeries or comparable laboratory animal microsurgeries per year, and significant experience with feline renal transplantation. Experience with feline renal transplantation was considered important because successful performance of a transplantation procedure is contingent on the surgeon's ability to create functional, patent end‐to‐end or end‐to‐side vascular anastomoses of renal arteries and veins ranging in size from 1.5 to 3 mm in diameter and a functional ureteroneocystostomy of a normal ureter with inner diameter approaching 0.4 mm . All expert microsurgeons are coauthors of this article.…”

Anatomical and physiological basis for the allometric scaling of cisplatin clearance in dogs

“…Lower sums of absolute residual errors and low bias in the distribution of residuals demonstrated the better predictive ability of allometric equations, as compared with the conventional fixed proportion body weight approach. The allometric equations developed in this study can therefore be more accurately used to estimate organ volume or size for donor and recipient during organ transplantation (Gregory et al ., ; Phillips & Aronson, ), assess organ size for toxicological studies (Wolfsegger et al ., ), in establishing normal postmortem values, and can be incorporated into physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models.…”