Spontaneous Renal Artery Thrombosis Successfully Intervened with Drug Eluting Stent: A Primary Renal Artery Angioplasty

Abstract

Renal artery thrombosis is a rare medical emergency and needs to be diagnosed early and treated urgently to prevent irreversible renal injury. We report a case of 35-year-old male, who presented with the total thrombotic occlusion of right renal artery and was managed with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with a drug eluting stent.

Keywords

• abdominal pain
• lumbar pain
• right renal artery