Bilateral renal artery stenosis diagnosed during pregnancy
Rigó, J.; Burger, M.; Repa, I.; Vereckei, A.; Varga, I.; Pusztai, P.; Dzsinich, C.
Orvosi Hetilap 138(35): 2187-2190
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6002 PMID: 9324680 Document Number: 480887
Bilateral renal artery stenosis was diagnosed noninvasively in the 17th gestational week, in a chronically hypertensive pregnant woman, by renal artery duplex ultrasound examination, MRI and MR angiography. Continuous monitoring of the mother and the fetus was performed. Blood pressure was stabilized by complex antihypertensive therapy, but from the beginning of the third trimester superimposed preeclampsia developed gradually. In the 34th gestational week a 1600-g newborn was delivered by elective cesarean section. The case report draws attention to the significance of the thorough examination of hypertensive women before pregnancy.