Vascular Steal of Renal Transplant

Abstract

Sonographic evaluation of renal transplants is routinely performed postoperatively. A steal syndrome, in which an arteriovenous fistula or graft siphons blood flow from a transplanted kidney and impairs its vascular supply, has been documented previously with both radionuclide imaging and angiography. We present a case of a vascular steal by a femoral loop arteriovenous graft from an ipsilateral renal transplant diagnosed with sonographic imaging.