Renovascular hypertension: an update on pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Renovascular hypertension: an update on pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
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肾血管性高血压:病理生理学、诊断和治疗的最新进展。
DOI:
10.1159/000166707
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发表时间:
1983
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Levin,DC
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文献类型:
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作者:
Dzau,VJ;Gibbons,GH;Levin,DC
The clinical problem of renovascular hypertension has provided the stimulus for generations of animal and clinн ical research. The results of this intensive investigation have significantly improved our understanding of the pathogenesis of this disease as well as the regulation of blood pressure in general. As Hollenberg [1] noted,'... rarely has a laboratory finding found clinical expresн sion as rapidly as did the translation of Goldblatt’s experн iments in 1934. Only three years after Goldblatt’s report, Butler performed a nephrectomy on a patient with renal hypertension and cured her hypertension’. The diagnosis, management and cure of this disease entails a multidisciplinary approach involving a combiн nation of radiological, medical, and surgical expertise. Not surprisingly, advancements in each of these disciн plines have improved the efficacy of clinical intervention since Butler’s initial therapeutic attempts. The developн ment of renal angiography helped define the disease in terms of an anatomic lesion amenable to correction by techniques of revascularization. Improved hormonal asн says, development of specific hormonal blockers and innovative animal experiments have resulted in a better understanding of the pathophysiology of renovascular hypertension since Goldblatt's studies. Definition of the regulatory control mechanisms involved in renin secreн tion have improved our ability to diagnose the disease and prognosticate surgical results. The recent developн ment of pharmacologic inhibitors of the renin-angiotenн sin system has provided new approaches to diagnosis and promises to contribute powerful additions to the theraн peutic armamentarium. Finally, new computerized raн diologic techniques such as digital subtraction angiograн phy coupled with recent nonsurgical invasive techniques such as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty can potenн tially revolutionize our diagnostic and therapeutic strateн gy. The confluence of recent advancements in each disciн pline still makes renovascular hypertension a most excitн ing and challenging clinical problem even 50 years after the work of Goldblatt.In this review, we will emphasize the underlying pathophysiology of the disease with reference to recent developments in animal studies. Insofar as a rational clinical approach to this problem is derived from the understanding of the underlying mechanisms, various clinical issues will be discussed in detail in the context of the pathophysiology. Specific sections are devoted to recent advances in diagnosis and therapy of this disease such as the use of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors, digital subtraction angiography (DSA), and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). On the other hand, the epidemiology or pathology of this disease have been extensively reviewed elsewhere and will not be discussed in this paper.