Effect of pretreatment with acetylsalicylate on surgical bleeding and peroperative mortality in rats undergoing kidney transplantation.

42 rats were pretreated with L-ASA before kidney transplantation, 43 rats acted as controls. 9 rats with L-ASA, but no control rats, died with i.p. haemorrhage. However, in animals surviving the operation, the intraoperative blood loss did not differ significantly between the 2 groups.