Effect of renal artery stenting on the progression of renovascular renal failure: a case of intravascular ultrasound-confirmed renovascular disease.
We report the case of a 71-year-old male, submitted to percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTA) plus stent implantation following the confirmation, at intravascular ultrasound, of severe unilateral renal artery stenosis in the setting of a single functional kidney and of evidence of renal insufficiency (serum creatinine value 300 mumol/l). At 6 months of follow-up the serum creatinine levels had returned to normal (98 mumol/l). This case shows the role of direct PTA on the overall renal function in a case of global renal ischemia.
Tarantini
Giuseppe
G
Division of Interventional Cardiology, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy. giuseppe.tarantini.1@unipd.it
Romano
Silvia
S
Cardaioli
Paolo
P
Ramondo
Angelo
A
D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional