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Renal and ureteric interventions are a broad set of interventions involving the kidney and ureter. Broadly, they represent an expanding field in interventional radiology, particularly from the embolization and/or oncology standpoint. This compilation of procedures involves several technical disciplines of interventions ranging from percutaneous nonvascular oncology procedures, to percutaneous urological procedures, and to transcatheter arterial procedures. Perhaps, the most traditional category is that involving percutaneous urological procedures. These procedures are important to master for the interventional radiologist and are vital to institutions and clinical services for which the radiology service collaborates with. These are discussed in this issue, Part I of Renal, Adrenal, and Uretral Interventions.

Management of renal transplant complications, vascular and non-vascular, as well as management of renal artery stenosis, atherosclerotic in nature or due to fibromuscular dysplasia, will be discussed in a subsequent parts of the TVIR issue titled, Renal, Adrenal and Ureteric Interventions. Also in the subsequent issues, the oncology related procedures, renal artery embolization for renal tumors, bowel displacement and protection techniques during percutaneous ablation of renal tumors, as well as adrenal interventions, will be discussed. Percutaneous renal tumor ablations are discussed in a prior TVIR issue titled, Interventional Oncology-Part II: Non-Hepatic Oncology Interventions.