Successful treatment of recurrent renovascular hypertension by solitary kidney autotransplantation.
A case of recurrent renovascular hypertension is described in a patient with a solitary kidney successfully treated as an emergency for acute renal failure and unresponsive hypertension, by renal autotransplantation in the right iliac fossa. The results suggests that renal autotransplantation is a safe and reliable procedure in correcting particularly difficult renal vascular diseases where, due to the presence of a solitary kidney, all possible causes of technical failure of revascularization should be avoided.
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D012008:Recurrence; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous