Arterial hypertension: adenocarcinoma of the kidney or bilateral renal artery stenosis$
Beretta-Piccoli, C.; Tettamanti, F.; Crivelli, P.L.; Weidmann, P.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 114(17): 601-604
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 6729421 Document Number: 228975
In a 71-year-old female with severe hypertension, bilateral renal artery stenosis and renal adenocarcinoma, a renal vein renin study revealed suppressed renin secretion from the kidney with carcinoma and contralateral ischemia. The hypertension was not cured by surgical removal of the kidney with carcinoma. Hypertension is frequently noted in patients with renal adenocarcinoma (28% of 603 patients reported in the literature). This type of hypertension is frequently improved after removal of the tumor (83% of 36 surgically treated patients). In certain patients the pathogenesis of hypertension associated with renal adenocarcinoma may be related to renin secretion from the tumor or to renin activation due to regional ischemia caused by vascular compression. In other patients the renin-angiotensin system does not appear to play a pathogenic role in the development of hypertension associated with renal adenocarcinoma.