2. Can be classified into

3. Urine leak and urinomas Urinary obstruction
• Relatively rare complications of • Occurs in approximately 2% of
transplantation and usually transplantations ( within the first 6
constitute an early months )
postoperative problem. • At any location but is most frequent
at the site of implantation of the
• Due to ureteral necrosis caused ureter into the bladder.
by vascular insufficiency or • More than 90% of ureteral stenosis
increased urinary pressures occur within the distal third of the
caused by obstruction. ureter.
• Narrowing at the ureterovesical
junction may be caused by scarring
secondary to ischemia or rejection,
by technical error during the
ureteroneocystostomy, or by kinking.
Retrograde pyelogram shows the area of narrowing
at the site of ureteral implantation into the bladder
(arrow).

4. Hematomas
•Hematomas are common in the immediate postoperative period, but they may also develop
spontaneously or as a consequence of trauma or biopsy. They are usually small and resolve
spontaneously. Large hematomas can displace the transplanted kidney and produce
hydronephrosis.
Abscesses and infections
•More than 80% of renal transplant recipients suffer at least one case of infection during the
first year after transplantation.
•First weeks ------ such as pneumonia, surgical wound infections, and urinary tract infections,
are similar to those that typically develop in nonimmunocompromised patients who have
undergone surgery.
•Infections with opportunistic pathogens and cytomegalovirus often develop 1–6 months
after surgery, and infections common in the general population are seen after 6 months.
Lymphoceles
•Lymphoceles are the most common fluid collection that causes transplant hydronephrosis.
Patients with a failing allograft may develop ipsilateral lower extremity edema caused by
compression of the femoral vein. In rare cases, lymphoceles may develop in the scrotum and
lymphatic drainage may occur through the wound.
•occurring within 1–2 months after transplantation

5. • Renal artery stenosis
– Occurs usually in the first year after transplantation.
– May be located before the anastomosis (because of atherosclerotic disease in the donor
vessel), at the anastomosis (secondary to vessel perfusion injury, faulty suture technique, or
reaction to suture material), or after the anastomosis (due to rejection, turbulent flow from
kidney malposition, or arterial twisting, kinking, or compression).
– About 80% of patients with end-stage renal disease are hypertensive, and after renal
transplantation two-thirds of these groups experience a reduction in hypertension.
• Infarction
– Renal artery thrombosis may result from hyperacute rejection, anastomotic occlusion,
arterial kinking, or intimal flap. Segmental infarcts in the renal transplant may be focal or
diffuse and may occur as part of rejection or as a result of an unassociated vascular
thrombosis. Vasculitis may induce small segmental infarcts.
– Signs ------ absence of urinary output and often with swelling and tenderness over the graft
and anuria.
• Renal vein thrombosis
– Renal vein thrombosis is an unusual complication of transplantation; ( less than 5% ).
– C / O ----- an abrupt cessation of urinary function and swelling and tenderness over the graft.
Hypovolemia, venous compression from a peritransplant fluid collection, dysfunctional
anastomosis, and slow flow secondary to rejection or other allograft disease can also
precipitate renal vein thrombosis.

6. Calculous Diseases Neoplasms
Renal transplant calculus in a 34-year-old Renal transplant adenocarcinoma. CT
patient with hematuria. (a) US image scan shows a cystic mass (arrow) arising
demonstrates hydronephrosis with a from the renal transplant that proved to
shadowing echogenic focus seen in the be renal cell carcinoma.
upper middle renal pole (arrow). (b) US
image of the distal ureter shows an Prolonged immunosuppression following
echogenic focus with shadowing (arrow) renal transplantation places the
a finding consistent with an obstructing transplant recipient at about 100 times
calculus. the normal risk for developing cancer.

7. GIT & Herniation Post-transplant LP Disorders
Renal transplant herniation. CT scan Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative
disease in a 25-year-old renal allograft recipient
demonstrates multiple distended small who presented with abdominal pain. (a)
bowel loops around the transplanted Contrast-enhanced CT scan demonstrates
kidney, findings compatible with circumferential thickening of the jejunum
obstruction. Small bowel had herniated (arrows). (b)Contrast-enhanced CT scan
through the peritoneal defect related obtained at a lower level shows encasement of
the superior mesenteric artery by
to the renal graft, a diagnosis that was lymphadenopathy (arrowheads), in addition to
surgically proved. the jejunal thickening (arrow).