[Interventional therapy in renal artery dissection due to renal artery PTA. Case report]

Percutaneous angioplasty of a renal artery stenosis may lead to dissection and acute thrombosis that may put the organ at risk. In this case, it should be discussed individually how to treat the patient and the decision on interventional therapy should be based on interdisciplinary consensus. Local fibrinolysis usually allows to recognize the cause of obstruction which then is the basis for further treatments. The case report presented in this article describes how a dissection involving two thirds of the renal artery and leading to significant obstruction may successfully be treated by means of interventional radiology.