Clinical Procedure: Graft nephrectomy

Objective: Unusual clinical course Background: Although organ donors are rigorously tested, occasionally an unidentified donor disease can be transmitted to the recipient. These conditions include malignancies, infections, and, rarely, congenital diseases. Case Report: We report a case of an inadvertent transmission of polycystic kidney disease from a 40-year-old trauma victim to both kidney recipients. There was no family history of renal disease in the donor. The renal allografts grad-ually increased in size with the development of cysts and functioned for 10 and 14 years. Conclusions: We report a case of inadvertent transmission of polycystic kidney disease from an unsuspecting deceased do-nor to both the recipients through renal allograft. Both the grafts lasted long enough to suggest that polycys-tic kidneys from deceased donors can be considered for transplantation