Complete Renal Artery Embolization in a Comorbid Patient with an Arteriovenous Malformation

Renal arteriovenous malformations are uncommon and are rarely a cause for presentation. However, they can occasionally pose life-threatening problems. We present a case of an elderly female who underwent a complete left renal artery embolization, following a difficult presentation complicated by adv...

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Autores principales: Thayaparan, Anthony, Amer, Tarik, Mahdi, Eamon, Aboumarzouk, Omar, Hughes, Owen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24716086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/856059
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author Thayaparan, Anthony
Amer, Tarik
Mahdi, Eamon
Aboumarzouk, Omar
Hughes, Owen
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description Renal arteriovenous malformations are uncommon and are rarely a cause for presentation. However, they can occasionally pose life-threatening problems. We present a case of an elderly female who underwent a complete left renal artery embolization, following a difficult presentation complicated by advanced dementia and multiple comorbidities. This is the first documented case of complete renal artery embolisation used to treat a renal AVM.
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spelling pubmed-39715452014-04-08 Complete Renal Artery Embolization in a Comorbid Patient with an Arteriovenous Malformation Thayaparan, Anthony Amer, Tarik Mahdi, Eamon Aboumarzouk, Omar Hughes, Owen Case Rep Urol Case Report Renal arteriovenous malformations are uncommon and are rarely a cause for presentation. However, they can occasionally pose life-threatening problems. We present a case of an elderly female who underwent a complete left renal artery embolization, following a difficult presentation complicated by advanced dementia and multiple comorbidities. This is the first documented case of complete renal artery embolisation used to treat a renal AVM. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3971545/ /pubmed/24716086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/856059 Text en Copyright © 2014 Anthony Thayaparan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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