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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 143-145 |
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Pseudoaneurysm of superior epigastric artery branch: A rare complication following renal allograft biopsy treated by percutaneous thrombin injection
Raghunandan Prasad1, J M Alex Babu2, Hira Lal1, Manas R Patel2, Amit Gupta2
1 Department of Radiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Raghunandan Prasad
Department of Radiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijot.ijot_13_18
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Renal biopsy is often needed to diagnose posttransplant graft dysfunction. Although it is very safe due to availability of real-time imaging, complications do occur. We report a rare case of anterior abdominal wall vessel injury during allograft biopsy resulting in a large perigraft hematoma. It mimics a subcapsular hematoma due to intrarenal vessel injury leading to diagnostic confusion. We detected a partially thrombosed pseudoaneurysm 3 weeks after the biopsy which had feeders from superior and inferior epigastric artery confirmed by injecting contrast into the pseudoaneurysm. The pseudoaneurysm is due to injury to small branch of these arteries. We used a novel and a cost-effective therapeutic intervention to treat this pseudoaneurysm. We injected thrombin percutaneously into pseudoaneurysm which enables thrombosis of the feeder vessels preventing recurrence.
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