title: Laparoscopy-assisted autotransplantation in child with renovascular hypertension.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Urology/Nephrology Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. basiri@unrc.ir
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Basiri
authors.forename: Heshmatollah Soufi
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Majidpour
authors.forename: Farhat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Farrokhi
mesh_terms: 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