PARTIAL RENAL EMBOLIZATION FOR PEDIATRIC RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION SECONDARY TO FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA

Authors
ISHIJIMA H ISHIZAKA H SAKURAI M ITO K ENDO K
Citation
H. Ishijima et al., PARTIAL RENAL EMBOLIZATION FOR PEDIATRIC RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION SECONDARY TO FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA, Cardiovascular and interventional radiology, 20(5), 1997, pp. 383-386
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01741551
Volume
20
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
383 - 386
Database
ISI
SICI code
0174-1551(1997)20:5<383:PREFPR>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We report a 7-year-old boy with renovascular hypertension showing mult iple stenoses and microaneurysms of the dorsal branch of the left rena l artery caused by fibromuscular dysplasia, Hypertension was successfu lly treated with transcatheter alcohol and gelatin sponge embolization of the dorsal branch and its distribution, The vertebral branch remai ned intact. No severe complication was encountered. Loss of renal func tion by renal scintigraphy was minimal. The patient remains asymptomat ic at 1 year.