Treatment of renovascular hypertension with percutaneous transluminal dilatation of a renal-artery stenosis.
Percutaneous transluminal dilatation of a left-sided renal-artery stenosis was done in a 61-year-old patient with hypertension. Shortly after dilatation blood-pressure fell to normal and renal plasma flow increased. Dilatation might be an alternative to renal vascular surgery in severe renal hypertension.
D004106:Dilatation; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000628:therapy*; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012077:Renal Artery; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000379:methods