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Treatment of an extracapsular post‐renal biopsy pseudoaneurysm with ultrasound‐guided thrombin injection
Author(s) -
Eng Mary,
Vaughan Thomas E.,
Woo Danny,
Buell Joseph F.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.20645
Subject(s) - medicine , pseudoaneurysm , biopsy , percutaneous , radiology , arteriovenous fistula , renal artery , ultrasound , renal biopsy , surgery , femoral artery , thrombin , kidney , aneurysm , platelet
Percutaneous renal biopsy is a convenient method to obtain allograft tissue for histologic evaluation. Vascular complications, such as arteriovenous (AV) fistula and pseudoaneurysm, following renal biopsy are well known, and they usually resolve without further intervention. When symptomatic, they should be treated. We present a patient on chronic anticoagulation who developed a pseudoaneurysm after percutaneous renal biopsy. Applying techniques learned in the management of femoral artery pseudoaneurysm, we treated our patient with ultrasound‐guided thrombin injection. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2010