“…More common indications to perform renal autotransplantation include renovascular hypertension, extensive ureteral damage and tumours of the kidney and ureter. But autotransplantation can also be used to treat diverse other urological or even vascular conditions, as Rana et al demonstrated successfully in hybrid surgery for aortic aneurysm repair [10] . The renal nutcracker syndrome, a compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and proximal superior mesenteric artery leading to similar symptoms as the LPHS, can also effectively be treated by renal autotransplantation, although, recently a newer method using retroperitoneal laparoscopic extravascular stent placement has been described [11] .…”