Bilateral renal artery stenosis: presenting as a case of scleroderma renal crisis.
A patient with long-standing scleroderma who developed malignant hypertension is presented. Renal insufficiency aggravated by the use of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibition prompted renal angiography. The latter demonstrated bilateral renal artery stenosis, an uncommon coexistence of two infrequent disorders.
Haluszka
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Internal Medicine Department, Naval Hospital, San Diego, CA 92134-5000.
Rabetoy
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Mosley
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CA
Duke
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000209:etiology*; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000175:diagnosis; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology