Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty of arterial divarication: application of kissing balloon technique

Radiat Med. 1998 Sep-Oct;16(5):387-9.

Abstract

We present a patient with renal artery stenoses due to fibromuscular dysplasia involving the point of arterial bifurcation that we could successfully dilate with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. We used the kissing balloon technique to prevent possible complications of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA), including occlusion of the other branch while dilating one branch. The kissing balloon technique worked well for PTRA of the arterial bifurcation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Angioplasty, Balloon / instrumentation
  • Angioplasty, Balloon / methods*
  • Aortography
  • Female
  • Fibromuscular Dysplasia / complications
  • Fibromuscular Dysplasia / diagnostic imaging
  • Fibromuscular Dysplasia / therapy
  • Humans
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / etiology
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / therapy
  • Renal Artery* / diagnostic imaging