A case is reported of a patient with aberrant right renal artery arising at the level of the eleventh thoracic segment associated with renal artery aneurysm and systemic hypertension. Knowledge of the existence of aberrant renal arteries is important because they may be inadvertently damaged during renal surgery and their presence must be considered in evaluating a donor kidney for possible ren...

Introduction. A thorough knowledge of the variations of the renal artery has grown in importance with the increasing numbers of renal transplants. The literature indicates that multiple renal arteries are found in 9-76% cases. The purpose of this study was to establish the incidence and characteristics in cadavers. Methods. The examinations were performed on 39 cadavers dissected in the Departm...

Introduction Renal arteries are a pair of lateral branches of the abdominal aorta, arising at the level of L1 & L2 vertebra, just below the origin of the superior mesenteric artery. Renal arteries course anterior to the renal pelvis before entering the hilum. Right renal artery is longer and passes posterior to the inferior vena cava, whereas the left renal artery passes behind the left renal v...

Classically, a single renal artery arising from the abdominal aorta supplies the respective kidney on each side. Near the hilum of the kidney each renal artery divides into anterior and posterior branchs, which in turn divide into segmental arteries supplying the different renal segments. A total of 84 formalin fixed cadavers (73 male and 11 female, 168 kidneys in total) constituted the materia...

The renal arteries are a pair of lateral branches arising from the abdominal aorta below the level of superior mesenteric artery at the upper lumbar level (L1-L3). The paired renal arteries take about 20% of the cardiac output to supply organs that represent less than one-hundredth of total body weight [1]. The right renal artery is longer in its course owing to the location of the abdominal ao...

Objectives: To observe and report the variations of renal artery in human cadavers. To compare the previous studies with the present study to report the incidence of the important type of variation. Methods: The study was performed on 60 cadaveric kidneys. The posterior abdominal wall was dissected in 30 embalmed cadavers to study the paired kidneys based on the method given in Cunningham’s man...

The renal arteries are a pair of lateral branches arising from the abdominal aorta below the level of superior mesenteric artery at the upper lumbar level (L1–L3). These arteries carry about 20% of the cardiac output to supply the organ that is about 1/100 of the total body weight. The right renal artery is longer in its course owing to the location of the abdominal aorta more towards the left ...