Endovascular embolization in renal trauma: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Approximately 1-3% of all trauma patients have a renal injury. Eighty percent of renal trauma is due to blunt injury, with the remainder due to penetrating trauma which is most often iatrogenic. Contrast enhanced computed tomography is used to triage patients and offers a quick and accurate assessment of any potential organ injury. If injury is present, The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system can both grade renal injuries and be used to help guide management and intervention. Grades are assigned based on imaging and clinical features of renal trauma, and have prognostic and treatment implications for patients. The objective of this narrative review is to identify optimal management of patients with renal trauma, specifically which patients can be treated with endo

SUBMITTER: Smith TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350687 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature