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This is a patient who is post-renal transplant

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had a biopsy due to graph dysfunction and

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now has pain at the biopsy site. We get

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the grayscale image showing a left lower quadrino transplant

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looks pretty okay over here.

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And we see some of the collecting system

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over here something that looks a little bit more rounded over

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here. And certainly they haven't appearance of the collecting system.

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However, when you put color flow on it,

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you can see that this portion of a collecting system does not fill which would

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be appropriate. However, this supposed thing that

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looks like a collecting system actually fills with color. So this is a vascular structure

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or sort of come back to that and a

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little bit as we evaluate the remainder of the kidney itself. We can

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see that structure again over here looks very beautiful. We have

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flow that sort of swirling within it resulting in

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flow going towards the trans use your flow going away

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from the transducer and this appearance is

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the classic yin. Yang appearance you see a

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pseudo and

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All right, if you can find the neck of

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the pseudo aneurysm which in this instance is quite difficult to find if

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you can find it you'll end up seeing flow that goes both above

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and below the Baseline over here due to

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the two and four flow scene within pseudo aneurysms. Now pseudo

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aneurysms are uncommon we end up seeing them and

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the post biopsy setting they're often

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small and asymptomatic you start treated if they

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get enlarged if for whatever reason

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they're causing symptoms if they're of a certain

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size generally above two centimeters you consider treatment,

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but the key thing is to be able to diagnosis and if

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you didn't show Color images on this you may think it's portion of the collecting system

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or assist putting the color images such as

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that diagnosis of a pseudo aneurysm

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Faculty

Mahan Mathur, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Body Imaging; Vice Chair of Education, Dept of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Yale School of Medicine

Tags

Vascular

Ultrasound

Kidneys

Iatrogenic

Genitourinary (GU)

Body