Transplanted kidney, stenotic renal artery, and a giant pseudoaneurysm: How we tried to treat, Why we failed, and How we managed?

Murat Uğurlucan

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16492

Murat Uğurlucan¹, Yılmaz Önal², Didem Melis Öztaş¹, Ali Rıza Odabaş³, Ufuk Alpagut¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
²Department of Radiology, Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
³Department of Urology, Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16492

Donor and recipient artery problems are challenging complications in renal transplant patients. In this report, we present our treatment strategy in a 42-year-old renal transplant case with renal artery stenosis and a giant pseudoaneurysm at the anastomotic site. Open repair failed due to extreme adhesions. However, the patient was managed successfully using the hybrid approach with iliofemoral bypass and stent graft implantation to the renal artery, providing retrograde renal artery perfusion.

Keywords : Artery; hybrid treatment; kidney transplantation; pseudoaneurysm; stenosis

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