Evaluation of Renal Arteries of 286 Living Donors by Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography: A Single-Center Study

Çıra K., Demirtas H., Durmaz M. S., ÇEKEN K.

EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION, vol.13, no.6, pp.581-587, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 13 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.6002/ect.2015.0016
  • Journal Name: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.581-587
  • Keywords: Kidney transplant, Digital subtraction angiography, Intravenous pyelogram, Renal artery variations, MAGNETIC-RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY, HELICAL CT ANGIOGRAPHY, KIDNEY DONORS, PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION, TRANSPLANT DONORS, ROW CT, UTILITY
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objectives: In living renal donors, digital subtraction angiography and intravenous pyelogram techniques developing traditional evaluation before transplant have started to give place to more modern and lessinvasive methods such as multidetector computerized tomography angiography, and magnetic resonance angiography via the developments in the imaging technology. We aimed to evaluate the renal arteries of living-renal donors by multidetector computerized tomography angiography and to compare the findings with the surgical results.