title: [Renovascular hypertension. The most common curable form of hypertension and chronic renal failure].
abstract: Some 20% of the adult population suffer from high blood pressure, the great majority having essential hypertension, that is, elevated blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found. Only about 5% of hypertensives present with secondary hypertension, that is, they have a specific, often treatable disease of which raised blood pressure is one, frequently the leading symptom. The renovascular disease is responsible for roughly one half of these cases.
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Institut für Bluthochdruckforschung, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rettig
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology*; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000209:etiology*; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis