title: A rare cause of renovascular hypertension: Takayasu arteritis with only renal artery involvement.
abstract: Takayasu arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects mainly the aorta, main branches of aorta, and pulmonary arteries with unknown etiology. Disease affecting solely the renal arteries is rare. We will present a case that had hypertension, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis where the etiology was type 2 Takayasu arteritis, affecting renal arteries.
authors.affiliation: Mustafa Kemal University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Hatay, Turkey. borazanali@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borazan
authors.forename: Omur Gokmen
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Sevindik
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Solmaz
authors.forename: Aytac
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gulcu
authors.forename: Caner
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cavdar
authors.forename: Aykut
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sifil
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: Servet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akar
authors.forename: Yigit
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Goktay
authors.forename: Taner
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Camsari
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology*; D012077:Renal Artery; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult