POSTURE-INDUCED DISTURBANCE OF PERTECHNETATE FLOW AND I-123 IODOHIPPURATE TRANSPORT IN SOME RENAL GRAFT RECIPIENTS WITH HYPERTENSION

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 21  (9) , 829-834
Abstract
Iodohippurate renography and rapid serial scintigrams with pertechnetate were done in 27 allograft recipients in supine and standing positions. Posture-dependent iodohippurate transport and/or disturbance of pertechnetate flow pattern was found in 9 of those examined. Patients demonstrating these abnormalities were hypertensive. A causal relationship between posttransplant hypertension and the described posture-induced alterations of tracer transit.