Macroangiopathy of a kidney graft caused by cyclosporin a
Jurine, N.; Guérin, C.; Kalil, C.; Broyet, C.; Veyret, C.; Berthoux, F.
Annales de Radiologie 32(2): 147-149
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4185 PMID: 2667434 Document Number: 345679
We report a case of renal macroangiopathy occurring after transplantation in a 50-year-old woman who received a cadaveric kidney and who was immunosuppressed with cyclosporin A. Accelerated hypertension at 3 months led to renal angiography which revealed diffuse narrowing of the two main renal arteries and their intrarenal branches. The patient returned to regular haemodialysis four months post-transplantation. These angiographic cyclosporin A-ascribed findings are similar to those recently reported by Sawaya.