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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2022-2024
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Case Reports

An unusual cause of post-biopsy oliguria in an allograft

Josep M. Cruzado, Joan Torras, Joan Domínguez1, Concha Sancho1, Jeroni Alsina and Josep M. Grinyó

1 Departments of Nephrology and Radiology, Hospital de Bellvitge, CSUB, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Josep M. Cruzado, Nephrology Department, Hospital de Bellvitge, Feixa Llarga s/n, 08907 L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain.

Keywords: acute renal failure; embolization; renal arteriovenous fistula; renal artery stenosis; renal biopsy; renal transplantation



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Renal biopsy of the transplanted kidney is an essential diagnostic tool of acute and chronic rejection as well as recurrent and de novo nephropathies in renal allograft recipients [1]. The application of molecular biology techniques to renal tissue samples obtained by this procedure may also contribute to increasing the understanding of the pathophysiology of the kidney [2]. In comparison with the classical manual Tru-Cuth technique, the introduction of percutaneous renal biopsy with sonographic assistance using thin automatic biopsy needle has significantly reduced complications related to kidney . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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