Embolization and angioplasty to relieve malignant hypertension and azotemia in a renal transplant patient.
The case of a 23-year-old patient with malignant hypertension following a renal transplant illustrates the successful treatment of the hypertension with embolization of the native kidneys. Azotemia followed and was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of high-grade stenosis at the anastomotic site of the allograft. Malignant hypertension redeveloped with the recanalization of the embolized native kidneys. This was successfully treated with contrast ablation.
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014511:Uremia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*