Transplant renal artery stenosis treated by angioplasty and stenting

Renal artery stenosis in an increasingly recognized and curable cause of hypertension. Though seen in only 1 percent of cases of hypertension, the condition is especially common after renal transplantation, occurring in 23 percent of transplants. Suspected by deteriorating renal function and hypertension, the stenosis can be diagnosed non-invasively by duplex ultrasound. Definitive diagnosis and anatomical details are achieved only by renal arteriography. The disease is amenable to surgical correction though angioplasty and stenting offers excellent results with negligible morbidity and mortality. We report a case of transplant renal artery stenosis successfully treated with angioplasty and stenting