Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Artery Stenosis in China in the Era of Donation After Cardiac Death.

CONCLUSIONS The incidence of TRAS with hypertensive cerebrovascular accident DCD-originated kidneys is relatively high, which is a warning to kidney transplant physicians. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the most reliable diagnostic means of TRAS and can be performed concurrently with intervention therapy. If the donor has severe atherosclerosis, plaques that are visible to the unaided eye in the renal artery trunk should be removed as completely as possible.
PMID: 32015300 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Annals of Transplantation - February 3, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Wang Q, Li X, Liu Z, Xu J, Han Y, Yu T, Chen S, Tang Y, Liu Y, Li X Tags: Ann Transplant Source Type: research