Santiago J Miyara, Lance B Becker, Sara Guevara, Lawrence Lau, Vinay V Nair, Nicholas Jandovitz, Ahmed E Fahmy, Elliot Grodstein, Aaron M Winnick, Claudia Kirsch, Daniel M Rolston, Madhu C Bhaskaran, Kei Hayashida, Koichiro Shinozaki, Ryosuke Takegawa, Young Min Cho, Joaquin A Cagliani, Arton Isa, Mustafa Al-Roubaie, K V Krishnasastry, Lewis W Teperman, Ernesto P Molmenti
In this case report, we describe the clinical course of a complicated transplant renal artery (TRA) pseudoaneurysm, clinically featured by gross and massive hematuria one month after a kidney transplant was performed on a 50 year-old male patient. TRA pseudoaneurysm is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication that may result in bleeding, infection, graft dysfunction/loss, lower limb ischemia/loss, hemorrhagic shock, and death. TRA pseudoaneurysm treatment remains challenging as it needs to be tailored to the patient characteristics including hemodynamic stability, graft function, anatomy, presentation, and pseudoaneurysm features...
December 2023: International Journal of Angiology: Official Publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc