Practical reduction of transplantation costs. Use of commercial transportation instead of charter aircraft for sharing pancreas grafts.

Objective: To demonstrate cost savings in pancreas transplantation through use of commercial organ transportation.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Independent Organ Procurement Organization, Denver, Colo.

Renal artery stenosis after renal transplantation: the impact of the hypogastric artery anastomosis.

A review of 402 renal allotransplants performed during a 5-year period revealed 25 cases of transplant renal artery stenosis in 377 evaluable patients. To our knowledge this is the first large study of this transplant complication in which all patients received cyclosporine immunotherapy. The incidence of transplant renal artery stenosis was 6.