1966 Volume 57 Issue 11 Pages 1149-1155
A 26-year-old man in terminal uremia due to bilateral kidney tuberculosis, received a transplant of the kidney preserved by hypothermia and hyperbaric oxygen. The donor was a 45-year-old man with right vesicoureteral reflux and calculu sin the right renal pelvis. The grafted kidney began functioning immediately and excreted 1600-3000cc of urine per day during the entire postoperative days. BUN and serum Cr. dropped from 110, 20.7mg/dl to 33, 2.6mg/dl respectively. However leucopenia appeared on the seventh day and the patient died with accidental rupture of the grafted kidney on the eleventh day. The kidney showed supprative pyelonephritis and no evidence of dysfunction due to thrombosis, rejection etc.
