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Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor

During evaluation of a partial Siamese twin for removal of nonviable parasitic part in an 8-year-old male child, a fully functional kidney was found. The functional status of the extra kidney was found to be within acceptable limits for the purpose of transplant, which was subsequently done in a 24-...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Rakesh, Maheshwari, Ruchir, Srivastava, Aneesh, Sharma, Raj K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20877612
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65406
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author Kapoor, Rakesh
Maheshwari, Ruchir
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Sharma, Raj K.
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description During evaluation of a partial Siamese twin for removal of nonviable parasitic part in an 8-year-old male child, a fully functional kidney was found. The functional status of the extra kidney was found to be within acceptable limits for the purpose of transplant, which was subsequently done in a 24-year-old patient with end-stage renal disease. The recipient is healthy 19 months after the surgery. The possibility of using organs from a partial Siamese twin makes this a unique case report.
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spelling pubmed-29385582010-09-28 Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor Kapoor, Rakesh Maheshwari, Ruchir Srivastava, Aneesh Sharma, Raj K. Indian J Urol Case Report During evaluation of a partial Siamese twin for removal of nonviable parasitic part in an 8-year-old male child, a fully functional kidney was found. The functional status of the extra kidney was found to be within acceptable limits for the purpose of transplant, which was subsequently done in a 24-year-old patient with end-stage renal disease. The recipient is healthy 19 months after the surgery. The possibility of using organs from a partial Siamese twin makes this a unique case report. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2938558/ /pubmed/20877612 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65406 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Maheshwari, Ruchir
Srivastava, Aneesh
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Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title_full Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title_fullStr Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title_full_unstemmed Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title_short Partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
title_sort partial siamese twin as potential organ donor
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20877612
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65406
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