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Partial renal embolization for pediatric renovascular hypertension secondary to fibromuscular dysplasia
H Ishijima1, H Ishizaka, M Sakurai
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Gunma University Hospital, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi 371, Japan.
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|September 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a 7-year-old boy with renovascular hypertension showing multiple stenoses and microaneurysms of the dorsal branch of the left renal artery caused by fibromuscular dysplasia. Hypertension was successfully treated with transcatheter alcohol and gelatin sponge embolization of the dorsal branch and its distribution. The vertebral branch remained intact. No severe complication was encountered. Loss of renal function by renal scintigraphy was minimal. The patient remains asymptomatic at 1 year.