The Ask-Upmark kidney: a curable cause of hypertension in young patients.
We are reporting a case of arterial hypertension in a young woman who had an atrophic kidney with a cortical groove and histological features of the Ask-Upmark kidney. Her hypertension was renin dependent and the patient was cured following nephrectomy. Controversy on the pathogenesis of this clinical entity is briefly reviewed.
Babin
J
J
Divisions of Nephrology and Pathology, Centre hospitalier universitaire, L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec Hospital, Québec, Canada.
Sackett
M
M
Delage
C
C
Lebel
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011859:Radiography; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood
D012083:Renin