ASSESSEMENT OF THE TRANSPLANT KIDNEY USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (A CLINICAL CASE)
The paper describes a clinical case and tactics of medical-diagnostic procedures for a patient with chronic glomerulonephritis with an outcome into nephrosclerosis, a condition after kidney transplantation to the external iliac artery, who received substitution therapy on the artificial kidney apparatus. With the purpose of determining the anatomical and functional state of the kidney for fur- ther management of the patient, a multislice spiral computed scan was performed, including the native, non-contrast phase and phases with intravenous bolus enhancement, which consistently scan to obtain arterial, venous, parenchymal stages of contrast. When analyzing the images, significant deviations from renal X-ray semiotics were revealed, which made it possible to correct treatment tactics.