[Value of renal scintigraphy in the diagnosis of vascular complications of renal transplantation]. / Intérêt de la scintigraphie rénale dans le diagnostic des complications vasculaires de la transplantation rénale.

ABSTRACT

Nuclear medicine can make an efficient contribution to the diagnosis and monitoring of renal disease and to the assessment of therapeutic interventions in the field of renal transplantation. The new radio pharmaceutical MAG 3 labelled with 99mTc provides renal imaging of quality in patients with impaired renal function and enables quantitative evaluation of renal function. We report on radionuclide evaluation, with special emphasis on the analysis of the vascular component of the scintigram, in the different clinical situations (i.e. renal failure) that may compromise the outcome of a successful renal transplant.