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Kidney disease with AAA
EVAR requires the use of contrast. This is the same contrast dye used for CT scans. Overtime, contrast load may hurt the kidney. This is especially important if kidney function was marginal to start with. Prof Mussa discusses the use of contrast and what can be done to minimize the injury to the kidneys.
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If you are a patient who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm and been told that you have kidney disease, it's important to have this evaluated before you have any sort of an aneurysm whether it's open or endovascular. Endovascular repair in kidney disease is particularly important because we use contrast material or dye that could be harmful for the kidneys. Obviously, technology had evolved in such that we could use less and less contrast, and at certain times and certain circumstances we completely eliminate contrast from the endovascular repair. But it's still for the most part most people use some volume of contrast. It's important to be cognizant of that and for your surgeon or your provider to evaluate your kidney function before the repair.
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