PAGE KIDNEY PHENOMENON IN ALLOGRAFT TRANSPLANT

Early postoperative anuria with severe systemic hypertension occurring after a period of initial renal transplant diuresis evokes multiple d iagnoses. Hyperacute rejection is rarely seen with rigorous routine pr etransplant lymphocytotoxic cross match testing. It is of great import ance to detect any nonimmunologic cause of dysfunction that can be rem edied, such as delayed tubular necrosis or physical obstruction. The a uthors present the imaging findings in a case of severe renal impairme nt caused by a tense peritransplant hematoma. The Page kidney phenomen on is proposed as a curable mechanism of this early allograft dysfunct ion.