title: Transcatheter arterial embolization in patients with kidney diseases: an overview of the technical aspects and clinical indications.
abstract: Therapeutic embolization is defined as the voluntary occlusion of one or several vessels, and this is achieved by inserting material into the lumen to obtain transient or permanent thrombosis in the downstream vascular bed. There are a number of indications for this approach in urological practice, in particular for the patients with parenchymatous or vascular kidney disease. In this review, we present the different embolization techniques and the principally employed occluding agents, and then we present the principal clinical indications and we discuss other pathologies that may benefit from this non-invasive therapy. The complications, side effects and main precautions associated with this approach are also described.
authors.affiliation: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. romaric.loffroy@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Romaric
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loffroy
authors.forename: Pramod
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Byung-Kook
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Lin
authors.forename: Eleni
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Liapi
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Geschwind
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000628:therapy*; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000628:therapy; D018207:Angiomyolipoma / Q000628:therapy*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000293:injuries; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*
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