Living Donor Kidney Transplantation With Multiple Arteries: Recent Increase in Modern Era of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

OBJECTIVE To compare the outcome of living donor kidney transplantation using allografts with a single artery with that observed in recipients of allografts with multiple arteries. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Tertiary center. PATIENTS Three hundred fifty patients who underwent living donor kidney transplantation from January 2000 to March 2007. INTERVENTIONS Living donor kidney transplantation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Surgical complications and allograft survival. RESULTS Three hundred nineteen allografts (91.1%) had a single artery (group 1) and 31 (8.9%) had multiple arteries (group 2), including 2 arteries in 21 grafts (67.8%), 3 arteries in 6 (19.3%), and 4 arteries in 4 grafts (12.9%). The operative time was shorter in group 1 compared with group 2 (mean [SD], 173 [35] vs 259 [48] minutes; P