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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2492-2494
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Case Reports

The transplant recipient with elevated creatinine, and normal ultrasonography—detection of ureteral stenosis by magnetic resonance tomography

Christian Doehn, Paolo Fornara, Hartwig Büttner and Dieter Jocham

Department of Urology, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Dr Christian Doehn, Department of Urology, Medical University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany.



   Introduction
 
Urological complications are the most common type of post-transplant surgical problems [1]. Delay in accurate diagnosis and an inappropriate diagnosis may result in the loss of the renal transplant, and is also associated with increased morbidity and mortality [2]. Transplant ureteral stenosis occurs in 3.1–10.2% of patients after renal transplantation [1,3,4]. The diagnosis is usually made by ultrasound and radiography with contrast media. We herein present a patient with distal ureteral stenosis which could not be demonstrated by other methods, but was detected by magnetic resonance tomography (MRT).



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A 33-year-old man developed end-stage renal failure due to IgA nephritis in 1992. Apart from . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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