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1Multi Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery,Toronto General Hospital, 2Division of Nephrology,The Hospital for Sick Children, 3Programa de Doctorat en Medicina,La Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 4Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology,Toronto General Hospital, 5Department of Medicine,Toronto General Hospital, 6Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology,The Hospital for Sick Children
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 00:44Preoperative Procedure
- 02:04Kidney Removal
- 04:16Kidney Graft Autotransplantation, Part I
- 06:04Kidney Graft Autotransplantation Part 2: Anastomoses
- 10:10Results: Post-operative Blood Analysis and Gross Histology
- 11:18Conclusion
Porcine models of organ transplantation provide an important platform to study mechanisms of organ preservation. This article describes a heterotopic porcine renal autotransplantation model, which allows investigating new approaches to improve the outcome of transplantation using marginal kidney grafts.
