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Renovascular Hypertension: A Perfusion Disturbance That Escaped Recognition

Department of Oncologic Diagnosis and Therapy, German Cancer Research Center
Division of Vascular Surgery, and Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: John H. Clorius, MD, Department of Oncologic Diagnosis and Therapy, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany.

ABSTRACT

A bilateral, exercise-mediated, hippurate transport disturbance was previously described when patients with fixed renovascular hypertension were imaged with o-iodo-hippurate. This study sought to test the hypothesis that patients with an abnormal exercise scintigram have a perfusion abnormality characterized by dysregulation of renal blood flow. We imaged 23 patients with hypertension and angiographically documented renovascular disease in the supine position, as well as during upright exercise. Seven normotensive volunteers served as controls. We measured the resting glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and the effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) with a single compartment radiotracer infusion clearance. The clearance examination also included a measurement period with 25 watt ergometric exercise. Nine hypertensive patients had normal exercise renograms. These patients had age-appropriate clearance values at rest and during exercise, as well as age-appropriate best-organ (generally without stenosis) GFR and ERPF values. The filtration fraction (FF) was 0.21 at rest and 0.22 during exercise. Fourteen hypertensive patients had a bilateral, exercise-induced disturbance of hippurate transport. In these patients, the global resting GFRs and ERPFs were decreased 40% from age-appropriate predicted values. The FF remained at 0.20. Light exercise caused a pronounced contraction of GFR and a less severe reduction in the ERPF. During exercise the mean filtration fraction was only 0.12. The exercise-induced reduction in the clearance values was bilateral, which indicated that the perfusion of nonstenosed organs was compromised as well. We suggest that the described perfusion abnormality occupies a relevant position during the maintenance phase of fixed renovascular hypertension.

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