Urologic complications in adult kidney recipients

In this article, the authors study the complications following all the kidney transplantations performed in their hospital between 1969 and 1980. During this period, 580 patients underwent 637 transplantations, including 120 (19%) with urological complications: urinary fistulae (49%), stenoses (28%), vesicorenal refluxes (13%), and calculi (10%). The postoperative mortality rate was 2.7%. Some patients presented with two or more complications. The circumstances of the discovery of the sequelae and the treatment prescribed are described in each case and a comparative study is made with other transplantation centers.