A case of successful renal allograft transplantation performed in a tw
o-year-old female Dalmatian dog suffering from end-stage chronic renal
failure is reported. A one-year-old male German shepherd with severel
y injured spinal cord was used as kidney donor. Simultaneous kidney al
lograft transplantation combined with hypothermic initial perfusion as
graft conservation was done, placing the done; kidney into the right
iliac fossa of the recipient. The immunosuppression protocol consisted
of prednisolone and azathioprine. Regular physical, laboratory, ultra
sonographic and scintigraphic examinations were used for assessing bot
h the morphology and the function of the allograft. After a two-week p
eriod of hospitalisation the patient was discharged in a remarkably im
proving condition. The recipient died on postoperative day 45 of respi
ratory insufficiency resulting from secondary pneumonia and pulmonary
oedema. Neither macroscopic nor microscopic abnormalities of the allog
raft were revealed by necropsy.