title: Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty of arterial divarication: application of kissing balloon technique.
abstract: We present a patient with renal artery stenoses due to fibromuscular dysplasia involving the point of arterial bifurcation that we could successfully dilate with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. We used the kissing balloon technique to prevent possible complications of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA), including occlusion of the other branch while dilating one branch. The kissing balloon technique worked well for PTRA of the arterial bifurcation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kihara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugimura
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Adjei
authors.forename: X Q
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001027:Aortography; D005260:Female; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy