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Improved Home Blood Pressure Control by CT-guided Ozone-mediated Renal Denervation for Patients with Resistant Hypertension
Published on: June 6, 2025
Case report: An unusual presentation of renal hypertension after damage control surgery
Peter Galos1, Michael Hultström1, Angeliki Dimopoulou Creusen1
1Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Introduction And Importance:
Hypertensive crisis may be a life-threatening condition to any patient and represents an even more serious condition in trauma patients following severe hemorrhage.
Case Presentation:
We present a case were surgical drape packing induced hypertensive crisis in a trauma patient, recently resuscitated from abdominal hemorrhage.
Clinical Discussion:
We argue that direct compression of the kidney by the surgical drapes induced hypersecretion of renin with a mechanism equal to Page kidney. The hypertensive crisis as well as the hyperreninemia was resolved after removing the surgical drapes, and the patient's condition returned to normal without any sequelae.
Conclusion:
We encourage considering this unusual but important complication when packing of the abdomen has been carried out, and strongly recommend ruling out renin-mediated hypertension as a cause of post-operative hypertension in such cases.
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