[Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta following renal transplantation. Surgical repair with extracorporeal circulation of the graft].

The authors report a case of abdominal aortic aneurysm, revealed three years after a renal transplantation in left hypogastric position. A pump-oxygenator was utilised to protect the renal transplant during the aortic aneurysmectomy. The renal function is normal three years after the aneurysmectomy, and the patient presented not prosthesis infection, despite the corticoid and immunosuppressive treatment.