Table 4.
The prevalence of renal artery anomalies – review of literature.
| Author | Number of patients | Anomaly rate | Examination type | Country | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early branching | Additional renal arteries | |||||||
| Patients | Kidneys | Patients | Kidneys | |||||
| Cicekcibasi et al. [14] | 90 | X | X | 25 | X | A | Turkey | |
| Khamanarong et al. [10] | 267 | X | X | 18 | X | A | Thailand | |
| Kurcz et al. [3] | 216 | 9.3 | X | 32.9 | X | T | Poland | 10-row CT |
| Patil et al. [16] | 102 | X | 10 | X | 25.5 | T | USA | No information on scanner resolution |
| Saldarriaga et al. [5] | 196 | X | 12.95 | X | 24.9 | A | Columbia | |
| Sampaio et al. [15] | 70 | 42.8% of patients*, 25.7% of kidneys* | A | Brazil | * Total number of all anomalies | |||
| Satyapal et al. [7] | (180 kidneys) | X | X | X | 27.7 | Angiography | RPA | 130 angiograms+180 kidneys in autopsy examination |
| Tarzamni et al. [18] | 117 | 36 | 21.4 | 40.2 | 26 | T | Iran | 64-row CT |
| Bordei et al. [9] | (272 kidneys) | X | X | X | 21 | A | Romania | |
| Kawamoto et al. [19] | 74 | X | 9.5 | X | 24 | T | USA | 4-row CT |
| Our results | 201 | 12 | 6.7 | 32.3 | 20.7 | T | Poland | 64-row CT |
| Mean | 148 | 19 | 12 | 30 | 24 | – | – | – |
A – autopsy examination; T – computed tomography; X – not assessed.