title: [Urgent revascularisation can preserve renal function in a patient with severe hypertension because of renal artery stenosis].
abstract: We present a case of a 61-year-old woman with renal artery stenosis in a solitary functional kidney. The patient was admitted with recurrent severe hypertension, flash pulmonary oedema and acute kidney failure. She underwent surgical intervention, after which blood pressure and plasma creatinine level remained normal during a 11-year follow-up. Renal artery stenosis may have a serious course with flash pulmonary oedema and dialysis-dependent renal failure. Urgent revascularisation may be the only option to avoid pulmonary oedema and preserve renal function in patients with renal artery stenosis.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk Forskning og Medicinsk Afdeling, Regionshospitalet Holstebro, Lægårdvej 12, 7500 Holstbro. jannjeen@rm.dk.
authors.forename: Janni Majgaard
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Erling B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D015607:Stents