When ballooning alone is enough: successful treatment of hypertension secondary to renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia using angioplasty.
A case of hypertension secondary to renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), successfully treated by balloon angioplasty is presented to highlight that for this specific condition balloon angioplasty remains the treatment of choice.
Yong
Andy S C
AS
Wyndham
Roger
R
Lowe
Harry C
HC
D000792:Angiography; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D005260:Female; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex