Nephrotic syndrome after renal percutaneous transluminal angioplasty

Restenosis after a first percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty.

The incidence of restenosis after a first successful percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of a native renal artery and the clinical and angiographic variables that may influence its occurrence were studied in 104 hypertensive patients. Angiograms obtained immediately before and after angioplasty and, in 92 patients, 8.8 +/- 6.0 months after angioplasty were interpreted separately by two observ...

Massive bowel infarction after percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty.

We report the case of a patient with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) who developed massive bowel infarction caused by cholesterol crystal embolization (CCE) after percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA). CCE is a complication of diffuse atherosclerosis, and it is responsible for a variety of complex clinical findings due to various degrees of multi-organ damage; it can r...

Pathological findings after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Ten serial pathological cross sections at 1 mm intervals of both the left anterior descending artery at the site of a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and of the circumflex artery in the untreated stenotic area were studied at necropsy in a patient who died immediately after the procedure. The extent of calcification and atheroma were similar in both branches. Intimal or medial sp...

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is a nonoperative mechanical dilatation of atherosclerotic coronary artery stenosis by a balloon-tipped dilating catheter system. This method can effectively reduce highly stenotic coronary lesions and provide early recovery of ischemic but viable myocardium. The technique of transluminal angioplasty was originally devised by Dotter and Judk...

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.