Analysis of Postoperative Surgical Complication in Renal Transplant Recipients at a Tertiary Care Centre

Renal transplantation is one of the most effective treatment measures in patients with end stage renal disease. This retrospective study included data from hospital records of 62 recipients who underwent renal transplantation at our institute.17 were live and 45 were deceased donor renal transplantation recipients. Surgical complications such as hematoma in 3(4.8%), urine leak in 1(1.6%), lymphocele in 3(4.8%), ureteric injury in 1(1.6%), ureteric stenosis in 1(1.6%), lymphorrhea in 1(1.6%), graft renal vein thrombosis in 1(1.6%), and abscess in 1(1.6%) patient occurred. The overall incidence of surgical complications in our study is 19.35% majority of the complications that we faced were from the cadaveric transplants. The study reports the successful management of all these twelve patients with necessary intervention.