Exercise renal scintigraphy shows renal ischemia in a transplanted kidney

Clin Nucl Med. 2002 Jul;27(7):483-5. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200207000-00003.

Abstract

Exercise renography is essentially a research method to investigate hypertension and has very limited clinical application. Captopril renography has long been used to study renal artery stenosis causing hypertension with good results. The authors describe a patient with a transplanted kidney supplied by reversal of flow via the external iliac artery. A "steal phenomenon" of the kidney related to ambulation was considered likely. Ischemia of the transplanted kidney was revealed by exercise renography, which showed parenchymal trapping of radiotracer as a result of exercise.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Exercise Test / methods
  • Humans
  • Ischemia / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ischemia / etiology
  • Kidney / blood supply*
  • Kidney / diagnostic imaging*
  • Kidney / physiopathology
  • Kidney Transplantation / adverse effects
  • Kidney Transplantation / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radioisotope Renography / methods*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide