Renovascular surgery and renal autotransplantation in Puerto Rico
Santiago Delpín, E.A.; Amadeo, J.H.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 73(10): 465-472
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 7039634 Document Number: 180618
Approximately 5 percent of hypertensive individuals in the United States have renovascular hypertension and therefore a correctable cause for their disease. The etiology varies with the age and sex of the patient, atherosclerotic occlusion occurring mostly in the elderly individual whereas hyperplasia of the muscular layer of the renal artery occurs mostly in the younger age group. For a number of years we have had the clinical impression that surgery for this disease in Puerto Rico was rather infrequent. Because of this we carried out an informal poll among a group of cardiovascular surgeons and confirmed this impression. We would like to report on eight cases of renal artery lesions including renovascular hypertension treated surgically at the San Juan Veterans Administration Hospital and present a summary of an informal pool recently taken among our vascular surgeons.
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