Relationship of renal transplantation to hypertension in chronic renal failure

Hypertension is prevalent in 49% of renal transplant recipients. Chronic rejection and impaired renal function may account for mild to moderate hypertension in most patients. The development of severe hypertension following renal transplantation, however, suggests TRAS, which is amenable to surgical correction with a high probability of success. Post-transplant hypertension did not correlate with renal diagnoses, sex, donor source and/or prednisone dose.