Renal artery embolization—indications, technical approaches and outcomes

Nature Reviews Nephrology 11, 288 (2015). doi:10.1038/nrneph.2014.231 Authors: Arnaud Muller & Olivier Rouvière Owing to improvements in catheters and embolic agents, renal artery embolization (RAE) is increasingly used to treat nephrological and urological disease. RAE has become a useful adjunct to medical resuscitation in severe penetrating, iatrogenic or blunt renal traumatisms with active bleeding, and might avoid surgical
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