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Endovascular Repair of Symptomatic Renal Transplant Site Pseudoaneurysm

Department of Radiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

Sunil K. Gujrathi, MD

Department of Radiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

Adie Friedman, MD

Department of Radiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

David Fox, MD

Department of Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

James E. Silberzweig, MD

Department of Radiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, jsilberz{at}chpnet.org

This article reports a patient with a symptomatic external iliac artery pseudoaneurysm at a prior transplant nephrectomy site who underwent successful repair with percutaneous endovascular placement of a covered stent. Endovascular treatment with a covered stent is a safe and effective alternative to open surgery in the treatment of a symptomatic pseudoaneurysm arising from a transplant nephrectomy site.

Key Words: nephrectomy • pseudoaneurysm • stent graft

This version was published on January 1, 2009

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 42, No. 6, 607-609 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1538574408320022


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