title: Reconstructive vascular surgery for renovascular hypertension.
abstract: Forty-six patients who underwent renal artery repair for presumptive renovascular hypertension are presented. Preoperative investigation included a rapid sequence IVP, a high quality angiogram and split function studies, as well as renin assays of renal venous blood in the more recent cases. Atherosclerosis was the causative pathological lesion in 60% of the patients, with fibromuscular dysplasia or miscellaneous causes of stenosis accounting for the remaining 40%.Surgical correction was usually obtained by bypass grafting (57%). Hypertension was cured or significantly improved in 36 patients (78%).Optimal results are dependent upon complete preoperative investigation and surgical repair of all the stenotic areas.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000637:transplantation; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D012083:Renin / Q000378:metabolism; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
chemical_list: D012083:Renin