Successful Treatment by Nephrectomy of Hypertension Resulting from Aorticorenal Embolus

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Abstract
THERE are several well documented cases of hypertension resulting from unilateral renal ischemia.1 2 3 4 5 6 In the majority of these, obstruction of the renal artery has been chronic and has been the result of arteriosclerosis or thrombosis in the renal artery or in the aorta adjacent to the renal arterial orifice. However, Poutasse et al.6 recently reported 2 cases in which hypertension resulted from fibrous intimal proliferation at the orifice of the renal artery. The primary treatment in the majority of the reported cases has been nephrectomy, with prompt remission of the hypertension, although Freeman and his associates1 have described a satisfactory . . .