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Selective renal embolisation for renovascular hypertension?
M V Ognjanovic1, D Richardson, M de La Hunt
1Department of Nephrology, Mother and Child Health Institute, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. malcolm.coulthard@ncl.ac.uk
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|February 6, 2002
Abstract:
An 11 year old girl developed hypertensive encephalopathy and renal failure from reflux nephropathy. Resection of her shrunken left kidney did not control her hypertension. Two selective arterial embolisations of the scarred right lower pole produced only transient benefit, but a heminephrectomy gave good control. Embolisation may delay definitive treatment.