Renal transplant complications - Minimally invasive management

The therapeutic goal of managing renal transplant complications is to ensur e optimal recipient and graft outcomes, while minimizing recipient morbidit y and potential secondary complications. Dense peri-transplant scar tissue may hamper open surgical correction of renal transplant complications, and correction may require complex reconstructive procedures. More recently, pr inciples derived from endourology, laparoscopy, and interventional radiolog y have been applied to renal transplant complications with encouraging resu lts. In carefully selected patients, minimally invasive management plans ca n be offered as reasonable alternatives to, and in some cases as superior a pproaches to conventionally open surgical repair, though clearly not all co mplications are amenable or appropriate for this form of management.