Segmental renal vein renins and partial nephrectomy for hypertension in children.
Hypertension in children often is curable surgically. In many instances the causative lesion will be segmental and either vascular or parenchymal. We report on 5 children with a segmental lesion in whom the elevated segmental renal vein renins correctly predicted cure of the hypertension following partial nephrectomy.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004796:Clinical Enzyme Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000201:enzymology / Q000601:surgery*; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D012082:Renal Veins; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood*
D012083:Renin