Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty: successful cure of malignant hypertension.
The technique of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty has been shown to be an alternative to vascular surgery in some cases of renovascular hypertension. A 40-year-old woman presented with malignant hypertension on the basis of fibromuscular hyperplasia involving her dominant right renal artery. The stenosis was successfully dilated and her blood pressure returned to normal.
D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000628:therapy*; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000628:therapy*