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Cyclosporine-induced renal macroangiopathy
B Sawaya1, R Provenzano, W L Kupin
1Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202.
Abstract:
Although nephrotoxicity secondary to cyclosporine (CsA) is common and has a predilection for arterioles, stenosis of the major renal artery or its primary branches has not yet been described as a manifestation of CsA toxicity. A case of a primary cadaveric renal transplant recipient treated with CsA who developed significant deterioration of renal function associated with angiographic evidence of high-grade stenosis of all three major branches of the renal artery that resolved completely after discontinuation of the drug is reported.