Percutaneous treatment of renovascular hypertension: case record

Abstract

The renovascular disease results of a unit or bilateral renal stenosis or arterial ramification. It’s one of the causes of secondary hypertension in both children and adults. It reports a case of renovascular hypertension due to fibromuscular dysplasia in a young female patient treated with angioplasty, who, thirteen years later, returns with high blood levels. Then, she was submitted to percutaneous intervention with stent in treatment of opponent renal artery. The patient has evolved with normal blood pressure, while in the hospital without pharmacological therapy. This article describes a case of renovascular hypertension and its etiology, incidence, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment are reviewed.