Radiology, Vol 152, 647-653, Copyright © 1984 by Radiological Society of North America

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Interventional radiologic procedures in the renal transplant

NS Curry, S Cochran, ZL Barbaric, SI Schabel, JJ Pagani, H Kangarloo, M Diament, RP Gobien and I Vujic

Percutaneous interventional procedures can be valuable in the evaluation and treatment of urologic complications of renal transplantation. Thirty-three patients underwent percutaneous procedures, including relief of obstruction by catheter nephrostomy, diagnostic antegrade pyelography with Whitaker testing, aspiration of various fluid collections (lymphocele, hematoma, urinoma, and abscess), and renal artery angioplasty, during a three year period at three institutions, to provide temporizing treatment and anatomic data. Surgical intervention was sometimes avoided, but more often it could be deferred to allow the patient to stabilize prior to surgery. Complications that required surgery occurred in two patients.

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