Renal arteriography

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)