title: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty: the treatment of choice for renovascular hypertension due to fibromuscular dysplasia.
abstract: Twenty-three renal artery stenoses in 21 hypertensive patients, caused by fibromuscular dysplasia, were treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). Follow-up over a period of 1 to 30 months, including angiography, renal vein renin assay, and radionuclide flow studies, was performed in 8 patients, each with one stenosis. Dilatation was initially successful in all cases and was successfully repeated in 1 case. The mean systolic pressure decreased by 61.81 mm Hg and the mean diastolic pressure by 36.28 mm Hg in response to treatment. Thirteen patients were cured, 8 were felt to have better control of blood pressure on medication, and there was no failures. This study demonstrates that PTA is a clinically effective method of treating renovascular hypertension due to fibromuscular dysplasia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000628:therapy*; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery