Abstract
Renal artery stenosis accounts for 12% of secondary causes of hypertension1 and must be considered in the evaluation of a child with sustained hypertension. The surgical treatment for renal artery stenosis is preferably renovascular reconstruction or partial or complete nephrectomy if the former procedure is not possible.2 In recent years, percutaneous angioplasty has been performed in adult patients with renal artery stenosis with encouraging results.3,4 However, there has been little experience with this procedure in pediatric patients. This report describes the successful use of this technique in a 4½-year-old boy with recurrent hypertension following renal artery reconstruction for unilateral stenosis.
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