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Diagnosis of renal artery occlusion by duplex sonography and successful lysis therapy
K Höbarth1, C Kratzik, H Schurawitzki
1Department of Urology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria.
Urologia Internationalis
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of partial renal artery occlusion in a 44-year-old man is reported. Diagnosis was established by Duplex sonography and confirmed by digital subtraction angiography. Subsequently performed local lysis therapy with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator achieved partial revascularization. Doppler evaluation of renal blood flow is useful to detect renal infarction.