Shari Friedman MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Liise Kayler MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Robert G. Berkenblit MD, Abstract Co-Author: Speaker, Novartis AG

1) CTA allows for detalied assessment of renal vascular anatomy which is crucial in pre-operative planning prior to renal transplant 2) CTA can detect conditions that may affect a patient's ability to donate a kidney or alter which kidney is ultimately harvested  

Review imaging technique for performing CTA prior to kidney donation Illustrate variant renal vascular anatomy and discuss those that affect which kidney is harvested or exclude the patient from transplant: -multiple renal arteries -multiple renal veins -early arterial branching -renal artery stenosis -significant atherosclerotic disease -left renal vein narrowing/nutcracker syndrome Present a pictorial atlas of varied incidental imaging findings both inside and outside the kidney that excluded patients from renal donation -renal calculi -evidence of portal venous hypertension  -papillary necrosis -renal cysts -renal cell carcinoma -pancreatic nodules  

http://abstract.rsna.org/uploads/2014/14004037/14004037_af5e.pdf

Friedman, S, Kayler, L, Berkenblit, R, Incidental Findings on CT Angiograms for Renal Donors.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14004037.html