Interventional Radiology - Technical Note

Endovascular management of renal transplant dysfunction secondary to hemodynamic effects related to ipsilateral femoral arteriovenous graft

10.5152/dir.2016.15134

  • Jason Salsamendi
  • Keith Pereira
  • David Quintana
  • Drew Bleicher
  • Marwan Tabbara
  • Michael Goldstein
  • Govindarajan Narayanan

Received Date: 24.06.2015 Accepted Date: 02.09.2015 Diagn Interv Radiol 2016;22(2):193-195

Hemodialysis access options become complex in long-term treatment for patients with renal disease, while awaiting renal transplantation (RT). Once upper extremity sites are exhausted, lower extremities are used. RT is preferably in the contralateral iliac fossa, rarely ipsilateral. In current literature, RT dysfunction secondary to the hemodynamic effects of an ipsilateral femoral arteriovenous graft (AVG) has been rarely described. To our knowledge, AVG ligation is the only published technique for hemodynamic correction of an ipsilateral AVG. We present a simple, potentially reversible endovascular approach to manage the hemodynamic effects of an AVG, without potentially permanently losing future AVG access.