title: 'Bench' MRI before transplant on harvested kidneys: a possible tool for diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis.
abstract: We present the first case in which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been utilized to rule out lesions compatible with acute pyelonephritis in kidneys from a cadaveric organ donor before transplanting them. A 40-year-old female underwent diagnosis of brain death following a septic shock. The ecotomography of the kidneys showed areas compatible with micro-abscesses raising the hypothesis of acute pyelonephritis. Our radiologist proposed to perform a bench-MRI (maintaining kidneys within the sterile preservation bags constantly on ice); this did not show lesions except little cysts not relevant by the clinical point of view. We transplanted kidneys without infective complications and results were very good.
authors.affiliation: Renal Transplant Unit, ASO San Giovanni della Città di Torino, Turin, Italy. emezza@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mezza
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Biancone
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tattoli
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Messina
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tola
authors.forename: Giuseppe Paolo
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Segoloni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002102:Cadaver; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting