Abstract
Treatment of renal artery aneurysm has traditionally been performed with conventional vascular reconstructive surgical repair. Endovascular treatment of renal artery aneurysm has been well described; however, embolization of the entire renal artery with subsequent infarction of the kidney has been infrequently reported. We are presenting a case of a 65-year-old man with marked retro-peritoneal lymphadenopathy secondary to lymphoma. He was found incidentally to have 3.9 cm × 3.9 cm left main renal artery aneurysm which was not amenable to endovascular stent-grafting and an open surgical repair carried high risk. He was treated with endovascular embolization of the entire left renal artery with subsequent infarction of left kidney; this was tolerated well by the patient who made good recovery with moderate elevation of the serum creatinine. This case illustrates that renal artery embolization is a safe option to treat renal artery aneurysm when conventional repair is problematic and other means of endovascular repair are not possible.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 131-134 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | European Journal of Radiology Extra |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Aneurysm
- Embolization
- Renal artery
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging