The kidneys receive arterial supply from the paired renal arteries. During routine dissection we observed in an adult male cadaver the following variation. Bilateral variation is seen in 5%-10% of individuals. The right kidney was receiving 3 renal arteries. Two were arising from the abdominal aorta just below the origin of superior mesenteric artery and the 3(rd) artery was arising from aorta,...

OBJECTIVE Accessory renal arteries are frequently encountered when patients are evaluated for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). Some have considered their presence a contraindication to EVAR in fear of endoleak and the end result of renal function. We sought to determine whether the coverage of accessory renal arteries during EVAR was associated with any adverse sequelae. ...

Background Renal denervation (RD) is a promising treatment for patients with resistant hypertension, with a good safety profile. Studies performed in animal models have demonstrated an increase in renal arteries’ velocity and flow. The hemodynamic effects of RD on renal arteries in humans remain unknown. The aim of our study is to evaluate the hemodynamic effect of RD on renal arteries non-inva...

Background. Classically, each kidney is supplied by a single renal artery originating from abdominal aorta. The present study aimed at its variations and their embryological and clinical correlation. Material and Methods. The formalin-fixed thirty-seven cadavers from north India constituted the material for the study. During routine abdominal dissection conducted for medical undergraduates at t...

The purpose of this paper is to report a salvage maneuver for accidental coverage of both renal arteries during endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A 72-year-old female with a 6 cm infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm was treated by endovascular means with a standard bifurcated graft. Upon completing an angiogram, both renal arteries were found ...

This is a case where multiple anomalies of the posterior abdominal wall arteries were found in a single male cadaver aged 50-years. These anomalies were accessory renal, a pre-hilar division of the renal, unilateral origin of the inferior phrenic artery from the renal and aberrant suprarenal arteries. The accessory renal and the pre-hilar branch of the renal resembled polar arteries that suppli...

PURPOSE To evaluate the incidence of supernumerary renal arteries in horseshoe kidney (HSK) patients, focusing on number and diameters using computed tomographic angiography (CTA). MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-nine patients with HSK and 103 patients with normal kidney (NK) underwent 64 or 128 multidetector CT. Based on 2-dimensional CT, including multiplanar reconstruction, maximum intensity p...

The aim of this study was to determine the pattern and character of the renal arteries in patients referred for preoperative or diagnostic evaluation of the renal or abdominal arteries by multi-detector computed tomography and, by comparing the arterial anatomy of the right and left kidneys, to evaluate the effect of differences in their anatomical position on the characteristics of the arterie...

INTRODUCTION Renal transplantation with multiple arteries appears, in literature, associated to a major index of surgical complications. This study compared the surgical complications and short-term outcome renal transplants with multiple arteries and single artery grafts. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data of 64 renal transplants with multiple arteries performed between January 1995 and December...

BACKGROUND Numerical study of angulation effects of renal arteries on blood flow has been of great interest for many researchers. Objective : This paper aims at numerically determining the angulation effects of stenosed renal arteries on blood flow velocity and renal mass flow. METHOD An anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries is reconstructed from CT-scan images an...