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Warm greetings to all viewers.

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My name is Mahan Mathur.

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I'm an associate professor of radiology

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and biomedical imaging, the Yale School of Medicine.

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This master course will cover imaging of renal transplants.

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Now, as it turns out, ultrasound is the first line

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and most often, the only line of imaging

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needed to evaluate renal transplants.

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And so, while some of this course will

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cover CT and MR imaging, majority of it will focus on ultrasound imaging.

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We'll start off by reviewing the normal

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anatomy of the renal transplant, followed by the expected imaging

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appearance in a variety of different clinical settings.

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Now, after we've familiarized ourselves with the range of what normal real

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transplants can look like, move on to complications,

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both vascular complications and nonvascular complications.

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Now, what I want you to remember is that the clinical presentations of these

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may overlap and the imaging appearance of a lot of these complications may overlap.

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Therefore, the timing of the presentation becomes very important.

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And you couple that with some of the imaging findings,

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that's what's going to allow you to make a narrow your differential diagnosis.

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And in doing so, you're going to really

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triage the patient into medical management versus surgical management, and so on.

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Now, all in all, my hope is that this course will be

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interesting, informative, and have a positive impact to radiology education.