Successful fibrinolytic therapy using tissue plasminogen activator in acute renal failure due to acute thrombosis of bilateral renal arteries

Urol Int. 1993;51(3):177-80. doi: 10.1159/000282539.

Abstract

A 46-year-old housewife with regurgitation of mitral valve developed acute renal failure due to acute thrombosis of bilateral renal arteries after cardiac catheterization. A regional fibrinolytic therapy using transarterial infusion of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) was performed at 8 h after the onset, and was successful. She could be taken off hemodialysis 2 weeks after the fibrinolytic therapy, and could be successfully operated on with mitral valve replacement 7 months after that. Three years after mitral valve replacement, her serum creatinine was 148 mumol/l. This is the longest follow-up case after regional transarterial fibrinolysis of acute thrombosis of renal artery using t-PA, and this therapy is a safe and good one for acute thrombosis of renal artery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Acute Kidney Injury / drug therapy*
  • Acute Kidney Injury / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intra-Arterial
  • Middle Aged
  • Remission Induction
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / complications*
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / pathology
  • Thrombolytic Therapy*
  • Thrombosis / complications*
  • Thrombosis / pathology
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator