renal vascular disease

Etiology

• renal artery stenosis
  • fibromuscular dysplasia
  • atherosclerosis often associated with cigarette smoking
• renal vein thrombosis

Epidemiology

• women (fibromuscular dysplasia)

Clinical manifestations

• onset at an early age
• acute pulmonary edema
• bruits in flank region
• advanced retinopathy

Laboratory

• serum creatinine increased (bilateral renal artery stenosis)
  • further increased after treatment with ACE inhibitor or ARB

Complications

• renovascular hypertension
• acute renal failure

More general terms

• vascular disease (vasculopathy)
• kidney disease; renal disease

More specific terms

• ischemic renal disease
• renal vein thrombosis