Difficult cases in heart failure: Bilateral renal artery fibrous dysplasia and heart failure.
The clinical characteristics as well as treatment of a patient with renal artery stenosis associated with uncontrolled hypertension and heart failure is described. Patients with similar findings should alert clinicians of this entity, since rapid diagnosis and treatment will assure a prompt relief not only of the increased blood pressure but also of the symptoms of heart failure. (c)1999 by CHF, Inc.
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Advanced Heart Failure Cardiac Transplant Center, Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, New Orleans, LA 70112.
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