This report summarizes our experience with 10 kidney autotransplanta tions performed from November 1972 to October 1978 in 9 patients with extended stenosis of renal arteries following fibromuscular hyperplasia. One of the cases involved a 5-year-old girl with a single kidney. Five of the 9 patients had presented with obviously decreased renal function.
There were no deaths. In the first patient the graft was removed after 10 months and a successful allotransplantation was performed with a mother donor, 5 years ago. In 2 of the 9 patients single kidney aortorenal bypass had been unsuccessfully performed elsewhere.
All the patients now have a normal blood pressure without having to take any antihypertensive agents, 3 to 70 months after the autotransplantation.
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