Jornal Vascular Brasileiro
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Endovascular stenting with a drug-eluting stent of transplanted renal artery stenosis in a dual kidney transplanted patient

Tratamento endovascular com stent farmacológico em estenose de artéria renal transplantada de paciente com transplante renal duplo

Rajesh Vijayvergiya; Navjyot Kaur; Ganesh Kasinadhuni; Ashish Sharma; Anupam Lal; Ashwani Sood

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Abstract

Abstract: Renal transplant remains the preferred therapy for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Given the shortage of suitable donor kidneys, use of an expanded criteria donor (ECD) allows marginal kidneys to be transplanted; albeit at risk of increased graft failure due to lower nephron mass. To reduce the risk of graft failure, double kidney transplant (DKT) is advocated, with favorable outcomes. Transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) is one of the most common vascular complications following renal transplant. Unlike single kidney transplants, where TRAS usually presents with fluid overload, uncontrolled hypertension, and worsening kidney functions; it may be clinically silent in DKT patients since they have two functional transplanted kidneys. We hereby report a case of TRAS in a DKT patient who had 2 years of favorable clinical outcomes following successful endovascular stenting. He however recently died of COVID-19 associated pneumonitis.

Keywords

double kidney transplant, drug-eluting stent, end-stage renal disease, expanded criteria donor, percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty, transplant renal artery stenosis

Resumo

Resumo: O transplante renal continua sendo a terapia preferida para doenças renais em fase terminal. Dada a escassez de rins de doadores adequados, o doador com critérios expandidos permite que rins marginais sejam transplantados, embora haja um maior risco de falha do enxerto devido à diminuição da massa nefrótica. Para diminuir o risco de falha do enxerto, recomenda-se o transplante renal duplo (TRD), com resultados favoráveis. A estenose de artéria renal transplantada (EART) é uma das complicações vasculares mais comuns após o transplante renal. Ao contrário dos transplantes de rim simples, nos quais a EART geralmente se manifesta como sobrecarga de fluido, hipertensão descontrolada e piora das funções renais, ela pode ser clinicamente silenciosa em pacientes com TRD, pois eles têm dois rins funcionais transplantados. Relatamos aqui um caso de EART em um paciente com TRD que teve resultados clínicos favoráveis por dois anos após o sucesso do implante de stent endovascular. No entanto, ele morreu recentemente de pneumonite associada à covid-19.
 

Palavras-chave

transplante renal duplo, stent farmacológico, doença renal em fase terminal, doador com critérios expandidos, angioplastia percutânea transluminal em artéria renal, estenose de artéria renal transplantada

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