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Polytetrafluoroethylene Patch Angioplasty for the Salvage of Near-Hilar Renal Artery Intimal Injury in Living Donor Kidney Transplant: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Key takeaways
This report describes a surgery to fix a damaged kidney artery during a transplant. It details how doctors used a patch to save the kidney. It is a single case and does not report results from a larger trial.
Who did this work
El Hennawy HM · Marzouk M · Jaber T · Alharthi AM · Alsameh GA · Banamah TA · Alharthi MM · Al Otibi N · Safar O · Hassan F
Source
Paper · PubMed, CKD severity and reversal · 2026 Sep
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42885710/