Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dalmatian dog kidney transplant success after chronic failure
By Németh, T et al.·Published in Acta veterinaria Hungarica·1998·Clinic of Surgery and Ophthalmology·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Clinical renal allograft transplantation in a Dalmatian dog: case report.
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Plain-English summary
A 2-year-old female Dalmatian with severe kidney failure received a kidney transplant from a 1-year-old male German shepherd. The surgery went well, and the Dalmatian showed significant improvement during her two-week hospital stay. She was given medications to prevent her body from rejecting the new kidney. Unfortunately, she passed away 45 days after the surgery due to breathing problems caused by pneumonia and fluid in her lungs, but the transplanted kidney itself appeared healthy at the time of her death.
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Abstract
A case of successful renal allograft transplantation performed in a two-year-old female Dalmatian dog suffering from end-stage chronic renal failure is reported. A one-year-old male German shepherd with severely injured spinal cord was used as kidney donor. Simultaneous kidney allograft transplantation combined with hypothermic initial perfusion as graft conservation was done, placing the donor kidney into the right iliac fossa of the recipient. The immunosuppression protocol consisted of prednisolone and azathioprine. Regular physical, laboratory, ultrasonographic and scintigraphic examinations were used for assessing both the morphology and the function of the allograft. After a two-week period of hospitalisation the patient was discharged in a remarkably improving condition. The recipient died on postoperative day 45 of respiratory insufficiency resulting from secondary pneumonia and pulmonary oedema. Neither macroscopic nor microscopic abnormalities of the allograft were revealed by necropsy.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9704530/