Kidney transplantation is currently the treatment of choice in most patients with end-stage chronic renal failure owing to the excellent results in terms of both graft and patient survival. However, surgical complications are still very frequent. Although urological (stricture, urinary fistulas, vesico-ureteral reflux) and lymphatic complications (lymphocoele) have a high incidence, they only rarely lead to graft loss. By contrast, vascular complications (stenosis, arterial and venous thrombosis, arterio-venous fistulas, pseudoaneurysms) are relatively rare, but potentially serious and may affect graft survival. Finally, medical complications such as acute tubular necrosis (ATN), rejection and de novo neoplasms may also arise in kidney transplantation. The purpose of this pictorial review is to illustrate the increasingly significant contribution of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in the management of complications of kidney transplantation, and emphasise how this method should now be considered a mandatory step in the diagnostic workup of selected cases. Moreover, the application and role in this setting of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, such as diffusion-weighted and blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI, are also discussed.

Magnetic resonance imaging in the complications of kidney transplantation / Onniboni, Mario; DE FILIPPO, Massimo; Averna, Raffaele; Coco, Lucia; Zompatori, Maurizio; Sverzellati, Nicola; Rossi, Cristina. - In: LA RADIOLOGIA MEDICA. - ISSN 0033-8362. - (2012). [10.1007/s11547-012-0891-9]

Magnetic resonance imaging in the complications of kidney transplantation.

DE FILIPPO, Massimo;SVERZELLATI, Nicola;
2012-01-01

Abstract

Kidney transplantation is currently the treatment of choice in most patients with end-stage chronic renal failure owing to the excellent results in terms of both graft and patient survival. However, surgical complications are still very frequent. Although urological (stricture, urinary fistulas, vesico-ureteral reflux) and lymphatic complications (lymphocoele) have a high incidence, they only rarely lead to graft loss. By contrast, vascular complications (stenosis, arterial and venous thrombosis, arterio-venous fistulas, pseudoaneurysms) are relatively rare, but potentially serious and may affect graft survival. Finally, medical complications such as acute tubular necrosis (ATN), rejection and de novo neoplasms may also arise in kidney transplantation. The purpose of this pictorial review is to illustrate the increasingly significant contribution of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in the management of complications of kidney transplantation, and emphasise how this method should now be considered a mandatory step in the diagnostic workup of selected cases. Moreover, the application and role in this setting of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, such as diffusion-weighted and blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI, are also discussed.
2012
Magnetic resonance imaging in the complications of kidney transplantation / Onniboni, Mario; DE FILIPPO, Massimo; Averna, Raffaele; Coco, Lucia; Zompatori, Maurizio; Sverzellati, Nicola; Rossi, Cristina. - In: LA RADIOLOGIA MEDICA. - ISSN 0033-8362. - (2012). [10.1007/s11547-012-0891-9]
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