CLINICAL RENAL-ALLOGRAFT TRANSPLANTATION IN A DALMATIAN DOG - CASE-REPORT

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.