role of multidetector computed tomography for evaluation of living kidney donors

Role of Multidetector Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Living Kidney Donors

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation from living donors has been increased recently. Preoperative evaluation of living donor is important to select the appropriate kidney for transplantation and to decrease donor surgical complications. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of the use of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) to evaluate vascular anatomy in living kidney...

Evaluation of hepatic vascular anatomy by multidetector computed tomography angiography in living liver right lobe donors

Background and Aims: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the hepatic vascular anatomy and the variations in living right lobe donors by multidetector computed tomography angiography before the transplantation surgery and to detect the prevalence of these variations. Materials and Methods: Fifty-one potential liver donors (20 females, 31 males) underwent hepatic vascular computed tomogr...

Use of Spiral Computed Tomography for Pre-operative Evaluation of Living Donors of Renal Transplantation

As the technique of organ transplantation progressed in recent thirty years, renal transplantation grew magnificantly, and the needing of living donors progressed, too. In the past, angiography was used for the pre-operative imaging evaluation. Because of the fast progress of computed tomography, not only shortened the scan time but resolution improved a lot, it has become the most powerful too...

Evaluation of Potential Living Kidney Donors

Evaluation of high-risk living kidney donors.

Careful evaluation of potential living kidney donors is crucial to assure the well being of the donors, especially because they do not gain any direct medical benefit from donation. This process also helps assess the quality and safety of the organs donated to the recipients. While all programs share these goals, donor selection criteria vary significantly among U.S. transplant centers. In part...

Multidetector Computed Tomography Evaluation of Subtypes of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Early mortality of most of the (40%) of patients with RCC is because of the disease progression, advanced stage at presentation, and delayed diagnosis. Thus, this tumor is the most lethal malignant urological tumor. The histological classification of RCCs is extremely important, due to implications of the subtypes in the prognosis and treatment of these tumors.3,4 In this context, a pre-operati...