Page kidney: a curable form of arterial hypertension. Case report and review of the literature.
A case report of arterial hypertension which occurred 5 years after a blunt renal trauma is presented. The physiopathology of this type of hypertension along with the diagnostic features and the therapeutic aspects are extensively discussed. The sudden appearance of hypertension in a young patient following trauma must suggest a Page kidney as one of the diagnostic possibilities.
Aragona
F
F
Institute of Urology, University of Padua, Italy.
Artibani
W
W
Calabrò
A
A
Villi
G
G
Cisternino
A
A
Ostardo
E
E
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography