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Direct percutaneous transrenal embolization for renal artery injury following percutaneous nephrostomy
N C Cowan1, Z C Traill, A J Phillips
1Department of Radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
The British Journal of Radiology
|August 6, 1999
Abstract:
The use is reported of percutaneous transrenal embolization for renal artery injury during percutaneous nephrostomy. If a nephrostomy catheter is seen to transfix the renal pelvis, the possibility of injury to a large renal artery must be considered. The misplaced nephrostomy catheter should be withdrawn over a guidewire. Percutaneous renal artery embolization may enable rapid arrest of life threatening haemorrhage.