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Published on: July 11, 2013
[Renal arteriovenous fistulas as a cause of refractory hypertension]
B Argüelles García1, S Medrano, A Meilán Martínez
1Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, España. bonel1980@yahoo.es
Abstract:
The prevalence of congenital renal arteriovenous malformations is low; for this reason, they are a very uncommon cause of arterial hypertension. However, arterial hypertension due to congenital renal arteriovenous malformations is potentially curable; thus, it is important to reach the correct diagnosis so that the natural course of the hypertension refractory to drug therapy can be modified. We present a case of a patient with bilateral congenital renal arteriovenous fistulas that were treated with two different embolization techniques in function of the morphology of the fistula and the intensity of the flow; treatment achieved control of the clinical symptoms of hypertension.
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