Kidney Transplant Artery Stenosis. A 23 year experience of patients receiving kidney grafts at the brigham and women s hospital was reviewed to ascertain the incidence of renal artery stenosis and its surgical management. Donor and recipient artery problems are challenging complications in renal transplant patients.
The stenosis may occur at 3 locations. Transplant renal artery stenosis tras is an increasingly recognized potentially reversible complication of kidney transplantation. Proximal to the area of anastomosis i e within the recipient s artery at the level of the anastomosis or distally within the donor renal artery tras usually manifests 3 months to 2 years post.
Transplant renal artery stenosis tras is a well recognized vascular complication after kidney transplant.
Renal hypoperfusion occurrin. It has become an important curable cause of hypertension graft dysfunction and graft loss in kidney recipients. Hurst fp abbott kc neff rt et al. Transplant renal artery stenosis tras is a well recognized vascular complication after kidney transplant.