Bilateral nephrectomy prior to renal transplantation

Bilateral nephrectomy was perjormed in 53 patients on regular haemodialysis. The indications were pyelonephritis in 30, polycystic kidneys in 6, glomeruloneph-ritis in 7, uncontvollable hypertension in 9 and horseshoe kidney in 1. In 87 per cent of cases the operation was carried out as a separate procedure prior to transplantation. The mortality was 9 per cent and the postoperative complications included hypotension, clotting of arterio-venous...