Introduction:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of polycystic kidney embolization, performed to reduce kidney volume before heterotopic kidney transplantation, as this technique ...could be an alternative to pretransplant nephrectomy.
Materials and Methods:
All patients who underwent pretransplant embolization of polycystic kidneys were included in a prospective register from June 2014 to February 2020. All patients underwent computed tomography (CT) scan with volumetric reconstruction (OsiriX, Bernex, Switzerland) before embolization and were then followed up at 3 and 6 months after embolization. Primary outcome was percentage of kidney volume reduction. Secondary outcomes were 30 day mortality and morbidity.
Results:
Thirty-one embolizations performed on 29 patients (medium age = 55.6; 62.1% male) were included between June 2014 and February 2020. All patients were under dialysis before embolization (9 peritoneal dialysis and 20 hemodialysis). Technical success was observed in 96.8% of cases. Mean procedural time was 65 minutes (range = 35–106 minutes) and mean length of in-hospital stay was 3.8 days (range = 3–6 days). A volume reduction allowing a kidney transplant was obtained for 28 patients (96.5%). The mean volume reduction was 39.9% (range = 6.01–68.2). The main observed complication was postembolization pain in 10 cases (32.2%). One patient needed complementary nephrectomy due to insufficient volume reduction. Twenty-three patients (79.3%) received renal transplant during follow-up with a mean delay of 19.5 month (range = 4–54).
Conclusion:
Polycystic kidney embolization is an effective and safe minimally invasive technique. It can be proposed as the first-choice technique for kidney transplant recipients as an alternative to pretransplantation nephrectomy.
A New Homemade Stapled Vascular Tube Graft Del Tatto, Benjamin; Saucy, Francois
European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery,
February 2020, 2020-02-00, 20200201, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Biological xenografts using tubulized porcine pericardium are an alternative to replace infected prosthetic graft. We recently reported an innovative technique using a stapled porcine pericardial ...bioconduit for immediate vascular reconstruction in emergency. The objective of this study is to compare the growth and adherence to grafts of bacteria and yeast incubated with stapled porcine pericardium, sutured or naked pericardium.
One square centimeter of porcine pericardial patches, with or without staples or sutures, was incubated with 105 colony forming units of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Candida albicans for 1, 6, and 24 h. The medium was collected to quantify planktonic microorganisms, while grafts were sonicated to quantify adherent microorganisms. Dacron and Dacron Silver were analyzed in parallel as synthetic reference prostheses.
Stapled porcine pericardium reduced the growth and the adherence of E coli (2- to 30-fold; P < 0.0005), S aureus (11- to 1000-fold; P < 0.0006), S epidermidis (>500-fold; P < 0.0001), and C albicans (12- to 50-fold; P < 0.0001) when compared to medium alone (growth) and pericardium or Dacron (adherence). Native and sutured porcine pericardium interfered with the growth and the adherence of E coli and C albicans, and Dacron with that of S epidermidis. As expected, Dacron Silver was robustly bactericidal.
Stapled porcine pericardium exhibited a lower susceptibility to infection by bacteria and yeasts in vitro when compared to the native and sutured porcine pericardium. Stapled porcine pericardium might be a good option for rapid vascular grafting without increasing infectivity.
•Porcine pericardial xenograft shows reduced bacterial growth and adherence compared to Dacron grafts.•Dacron Silver graft is strongly bactericidal, but only mildly fungistatic.•Porcine pericardial xenograft with staples interferes with the growth and the adherence of bacteria and yeast better than naked or sutured-stapled pericardium.•Tubulized stapled porcine pericardium might represent an alternative to synthetic vascular grafts for rapid vascular replacement and possibly for patients with a high risk of infection.
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