Interventional angiography of the renal fossa.

In this article, the authors present an overview of interventional procedures that aim at (1) opening of the renal artery with percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty, intra-arterial thrombolysis, and/or transcatheter thromboembolectomy and (2) reducing or obstructing renal artery blood flow with transcatheter embolization.