title: Surgical intervention in severe and complicated renal hypertension: Report of the Sydney Renal Hypertension Group (1969-75).
abstract: 1. A prospective study was undertaken in seventy-eight patients with renal hypertension (fifty-eight with renovascular disease and twenty with renal parenchymal disease), after their presentation to an advisory group as possible candidates for surgical management. 2. Vascular repair and/or nephrectomy were performed in forty-four patients, and the remainder were treated with anti-hypertensive drugs. The control of blood pressure was then assessed over periods of 6-70 months. 3. Of the patients treated surgically, fifteen (34%) were normotensive without medication and fifteen had improved blood pressure control; the morbidity rate was the same as in the medically treated group, but mortality was lower and blood pressure control was better, particularly among patients under 40 years of age. 4. Surgery undertaken primarily to conserve renal function was beneficial in four of nine patients with bilateral renal artery stenosis and severe, progressive uraemia. 5. The blood pressure response to surgical correction of unilateral renal lesions was predicted correctly by the preoperative renal vein renin ratio in fifteen of eighteen cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000601:surgery*; D007668:Kidney / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000601:surgery