1. Surgical Treatment of an Extrarenal Pseudoaneurysm After Kidney Transplantation
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Jennifer A. Sharron, William Kenneth Washburn, Gregory A Abrahamian, and Robert M. Esterl
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Male ,Reoperation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Percutaneous ,Exploratory laparotomy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Anastomosis ,Iliac Artery ,Injections ,Pseudoaneurysm ,Renal Artery ,medicine ,Humans ,cardiovascular diseases ,Ligation ,Kidney transplantation ,Aged ,Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Anastomosis, Surgical ,Graft Survival ,Thrombin ,Interventional radiology ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,cardiovascular system ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Radiology ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Vascular Surgical Procedures ,Aneurysm, False ,Artery - Abstract
A 69-year-old man who underwent a kidney transplantation developed a large pseudoaneurysm at the anastomosis between the right external iliac artery and renal transplant artery. After an unsuccessful attempt using percutaneous thrombin injection, the patient underwent open exploratory laparotomy and surgical ligation of the pseudoaneurysm with preservation of renal graft function.
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- 2009
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