[Kidney Auto-Transplantation for Intraoperative Right Renal Artery Injury in a Single Kidney Patient : A Case Report].

A man in his 70's who had undergone left radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer had the right renal artery ablated unexpectedly during pancreatoduodenectomy for a huge duodenal tumor. For this intraoperative emergency, an autologous kidney transplantation was performed with the right kidney being removed, perfused, and transplanted into the right iliac fossa. Warm ischemic time was over 2 hours. The patient developed postoperative hemorrhagic infarction of a renal artery branch, which was successfully treated with intravascular intervention. The patient was weaned off hemodialysis and was discharged in 16 weeks postoperatively.