Abstract
Currently the number of kidney transplants performed each year is limited only by the number of donor organs available. The disparity between the number of patients awaiting a kidney and the number of suitable organs recovered continues to increase.' In addition, an increasing number of patients on dialysis who are older than 60 years are seeking transplantation as an option for renal replacement therapy, many of whom have significant atherosclerotic disease of the iliac blood vessels andor have undergone previous vascular reconstructive procedures on the cardiovascular system. We report the use of a cadaveric donor aorta to fashion a graft for donor renal artery replacement when the transplant renal artery was not usable.
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