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Renal Artery Embolization for Bleeding, Angiolipoma, Renal Cell Carcinoma and Certain Medical Conditions

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Renal artery embolization (RAE) is an effective minimally invasive alternative procedure for the treatment of a variety of surgical and chronic medical renal diseases. It is invaluable in containing bleeding due to iatrogenic and other traumatic causes which otherwise requires nephrectomy. Since the 1970s when RAE was first developed, technical advances and growing experience have expanded the indications to not only include treatment of conditions such as symptomatic hematuria and palliation for metastatic renal cancer, but also preoperative infarction of renal tumors, treatment of angiomyolipomas, vascular malformations, medical renal disease and complications following renal transplantation and biopsy. The availability of more precise embolic agents and smaller delivery catheters, have contributed to the growth of RAE for an exxpanding list of urologic and nephrologic conditions.

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Varghese, K., Adhyapak, S. (2017). Renal Artery Embolization for Bleeding, Angiolipoma, Renal Cell Carcinoma and Certain Medical Conditions. In: Therapeutic Embolization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42494-1_4

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