Chronic total renal artery occlusion: a diagnostic challenge.
Chronic renal artery occlusion must be suspected whenever a moderate hypertensive patient over 50 years of age presents increase of blood pressure refractory to treatment, sometimes causing heart failure or stroke. This suspicion is reinforced by the presence of renal insufficiency and of anatomical and/or functional lateralization of renal damage at intravenous pyelography.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001027:Aortography; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014511:Uremia / Q000209:etiology
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