Diffuse Renal Cortical Hemorrhage in the Setting of Subcapsular Hematoma: Diagnosis and Treatment with Embolization.

Purpose: To describe radiologic findings, embolization technique, and clinical outcomes in patients with renal subcapsular hematoma and diffuse cortical hemorrhage.

Materials And Methods: Ten patients with renal subcapsular hematoma and diffuse cortical hemorrhage were reviewed. Nine of the 10 had undergone procedures (nephrostomy, n = 4; biopsy, n = 4; embolization of a cerebral aneurysm, n = 1) and 1 patient was receiving oral anticoagulation.

Kidneys from donors with incidental renal tumors: should they be considered acceptable option for transplantation?

Background: The increase in the prevalence of end-stage renal disease in developed countries and the shortage of deceased donors has made it necessary to increase the graft pool by means of several strategies, such as live donation, non-heart-beating donors, and expanded criteria donors. Frequently, and because of the increasing acceptance of older donors, we find a higher percentage of incidental renal masses in these donors as a result of the inherent epidemiology of this disease. These kidneys can be considered suitable grafts after bench surgery to remove the tumor.