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Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was performed on a right common iliac artery stenosis presumed to be causing renovascular hypertension in a patient with a renal allograft anastomosis to the right external iliac artery. This was complicated by an obstructive dissection resulting in acute threatening renal allograft ischemia. Renal blood flow was restored by means of a transluminal reperfusion catheter until corrective surgery could be performed. This case is reported because such catheters can be acutely helpful to the interventionalist, and they have not been described in the radiology literature.
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Kim, D., Porter, D.H., Siegel, J.B. et al. Use of a reperfusion catheter after angioplasty dissection for salvage of ischemic renal allograft: Case report. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 14, 179–182 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02577725
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