Treatment of massive hemorrhage after renal biopsy with percutaneous arterial obliteration.
Severe perirenal hemorrhage is a major, although rare, postbiopsy complication. We report a case of a 48-year-old man with a postbiopsy massive bleeding from a ramification of the renal artery supplying the lower pole of the left kidney. Treatment consisted of complete obliteration of the bleeding vessel by helding a percutaneous catether in wedge position during a renal arteriographyc study. Our case shows that percutaneous arterial obliteration is a successful procedure in treating postbiopsy renal hemorrhage, representing an effective alternative to surgical therapy.
Russo
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Department of Nephrology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Naples, Italy.
Iaccarino
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Niola
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Stanziale
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Testa
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Andreucci
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D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011507:Proteinuria; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery*