Traumatic renal artery occlusion

ABSTRACT

Von Recklinghausen first reported blunt renal artery trauma in 1861. Since then approximately 200 cases have been reported in the literature. Rohl performed the first successful revasculariwtion procedure in 1971 on a 25-year-old man with a traumatic thrombosis of the left renal artery. Even with the advent of prompt surgical revascularization, return of normal renal function is rarely achieved