Laparoscopy-assisted autotransplantation in child with renovascular hypertension.
A 7-year-old boy with hypertension secondary to intimal hyperplasia of the left renal artery was normotensive after laparoscopic autotransplantation following failed angioplasty. This appears to be the first such case reported.
Basiri
Abbas
A
Urology/Nephrology Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. basiri@unrc.ir
Majidpour
Heshmatollah Soufi
HS
Farrokhi
Farhat
F
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D002648:Child; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000473:pathology; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology