Severe hyperreninemic hypertension associated with spontaneous renal cholesterol crystal embolization

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 150-154

  Tanaka, Masami ^a   Matsuo, Koichi ^a   Shoda, Hiroyuki ^a   Takami, Shigeto ^b   Naruse, Mitsuhide ^c   Matsuyama, Kimihiko ^a  

^a Misato Kenwa Hospital   (Japan)

^b Misato Kenwa Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Penetrating duodenal ulcers; Renal insufficiency; Renovascular hypertension

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COLON BLOOD FLOW; DUODENUM ULCER; EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERRENINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PERITONITIS; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SHOCK; STOMACH BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 3142585178     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-003-0269-4     Document Type: Article

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