...Toshimori Seki; Tomohiko Koyanagi; Masaki Togashi; Katsutoshi Tanda; Kouichi Kanagawa; Katsuya Nonomura Two boys, 11 and 10 years of age, respectively, having renovascular hypertension are reported. Diagnostically, captopril test and renal scintigraphy were useful as pharmacologic probes...

... parenchym and the ureteropelvic junction, led to arterial hypertension and consecutive, reduced function hydronephrosis. 27 11 1995 18 06 1996 4 2 2010 Renal artery aneurysm Kidney Renovascular hypertension Malformation renal artery Hydronephrosis © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel...

...Bernd Kutkuhn; Markus Hollenbeck; Andreas Westhoff; Katrin Ivens; Peter Heering; Bernd Grabensee Basal renin secretion and the diagnostic value of a captopril stimulation (captopril test) in identifying renovascular hypertension secondary to transplant renal artery stenosis was assessed in 69...

...Masaki Yoshida; Soichi Ueda; Jiroh Machida; Sinjiro Yano; Iwao Aikoh The effects of nifedipine, a calcium antagonist, on blood pressure and renal regional blood flow were investigated in two-kidney, one-clip renovascular hypertensive rabbits. At 1 week after left renal artery constriction...

...Hidehisa Soejima; Yoshio Nomura; Kazuma Tsuruta; Keiichi Ikegami To study the role of renal prostaglandins (PGs) in renovascular hypertension, PGE 2 and PGF 2 α concentrations in both inner and outer medullae of the kidney were measured by radioimmunoassay in rabbits with hypertension produced...

...Junne-Yih Kuo; Yusaku Okada; Hideo Takeuchi; Osamu Yoshida; Hiroshi Suzuki; Young Chi Kim We report a case of renovascular hypertension due to renal segmental artery stenosis and aneurysm seen in a 16-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis. Hypertension was successfully treated with partial...

...Masaki Yoshida; Shoichi Veda; Jiroh Machida; Keiichi Ikegami To examine the intracellular calcium content of the vascular smooth muscle in the chronic phase of renovascular hypertension, the effects of caffeine on isolated aortic, renal and iliac arterial strips were evaluated in two-kidney, one...

...Hideo Hidai Clinical analysis on 285 documented cases of renovascular hypertension reported in the Japanese medical literatures revealed Takayasu’s syndrome occupied 30%, followed by fibromuscular hyperplasia 18% and atherosclerosis 13%. Some of the subjects were compared...