title: Acute renal allograft failure due to thrombosis of a previously stented iliac artery: salvage using mechanical thrombectomy and restenting.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Renal artery stenosis is the most common surgical complication after renal transplantation. RT stenosis of the iliac artery presents in a similar way. Interventional techniques can salvage the graft in most cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a renal transplant recipient who developed acute ischemic graft failure due to thrombosis of a previously stented iliac artery. He was successfully treated with mechanical thrombectomy and re-stenting. By this, we were able to salvage the graft with good long-term function.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To the best of our knowledge this is the first case of restenting of an iliac artery in the setting of RT. Interventional radiology should be the approach in such cases.
authors: Department of Radiology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
authors: Maged M
authors: MM
authors: Ismaeel
authors: Hugo
authors: H
authors: Bonatti
authors: Ahmad M
authors: AM
authors: Housseini
authors: Ehab
authors: E
authors: Ahmad
authors: Timothy L
authors: TL
authors: Pruett
authors: Kenneth
authors: K
authors: Brayman
authors: Klaus D
authors: KD
authors: Hagspiel
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents; D017131:Thrombectomy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed