Acute renal failure due to acute bilateral renal artery thrombosis: successful surgical revascularization after prolonged anuria.
Acute bilateral renal artery thrombosis is a rare but surgically correctable cause of acute renal failure. A middle-aged woman with acute renal failure and anuria due to atherosclerotic occlusion of the abdominal aorta and both renal arteries was surgically treated 42 days after the onset of anuria. Revascularization resulted in the reversal of renal failure and complete recovery of renal function in spite of prolonged anuria. An aggressive diagnostic and therapeutic approach is important whenever this condition is suspected.
Pontremoli
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Section of Nephrology, University of Genoa, Italy.
Rampoldi
V
V
Morbidelli
A
A
Fiorini
F
F
Ranise
A
A
Garibotto
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G
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D001002:Anuria / Q000601:surgery; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery