ABSTRACT
In selected and well-screened hypertensives, renal arteriography is an indispensable diagnostic tool for establishing a possible renovascular cause for the high blood pressure. Positive angiographic findings may be expected in 40% of renovascular suspects submitted to this procedure. At the present time we are getting more conclusive renal angiograms by the retrograde transfemoral route and have used this approach in fifteen instances. There has not been any noteworthy complication arising from transfemoral approach in those cases we have personally done. In most instances a positive renal angiogram not only concluded the study of the patient but it also provides the surgeon and the urologist with a pre-operative plan in dealing with the pathology in each individual case.(Summary)
ABSTRACT
Diabetes mellitus afflicts more than one million Filipinos as shown by recent surveys. Most of them do not know they have the disease. Fatality and disability among diabetics is mostly associated with the nature and extent of so-called complications that precede, accompany or follow the onset of carbohydrate intolerance. Much has been written about organ involvement among diabetes abroad. Local material is still wanting at the present time. (Author)