Pancreas-kidney simultaneous transplant with graft derived from previously transplanted dead donor

Abstract

The raising increase in the patient’s waiting list leaves us search for ways to increase the pool of organ donors. Looking at this, there is the use of living donors, of adjoining donors or non-heart beating donors. Another way to increase the number of donors is through the use of organs that came from previously transplanted donors, a group that is becoming larger, because of the rise of the number of transplants all around the world. The results obtained with this kind of donor are suitable to its use, showing similar results to the obtained with usual donors. We present the first case in our ambience of a simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant with grafts derived from a heart transplanted donor.