Intravenous dıgıtal substractıon angıography versus conventıonal angıography for evaluatıng lıvıng renal donors

Abstract

The angiograms of 40 nephrectomised donors operated at the Department of Urology. Hacettepe University Hospital, were evaluated retrospectively.It was found that in 84 % of donors who underwent intravenous digital subtraction angiography (IV-DSA) and in 76 % of patients who underwent conventional aortography and selective renal angiography (CA) the estimations for renal arterial anatomy preoperative - ly were correct. The accuracy of the two techniques for predicting the renal arterial status did not differ statistically. It was concluded that as IV-DSA is a non- invasive method, it should be the procedure of choice for evaluating living renal donors.