ROLE OF INTERVENTION RADIOLOGY IN RENAL VASCULAR INJURIES

Abstract

Renal vascular injuries are common problem encountered in medical practice either iatrogenic or traumatic in origin and pose significant morbidity and mortality despite the kidney’s relatively protected site within the retroperitoneum (Ali et al, 2013). Surgical procedures mostly fail at repair of the vascular injury and usually end with nephrectomy carrying the risk of loss of renal function and high morbidity and mortality rates (Bize et al, 2012). RAE is an established alternative to surgical intervention with the main goal to preserve renal tissue as much as possible. Improvements in catheter and embolic agents have played a large role in the increasingly successful implementation and high technical success of RAE (Sam et al 2011).