Renal Failure due to Cholesterol Embolization Following Percutaneous Transluminal Renal Angioplasty

• Published in: Japanese Journal of Medicine Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 35 - 38
• Main Authors: KOGA, Tokushi, OKUDA, Seiya, TAKISHITA, Shuichi, SHIGEMATSU, Akihiro, KOMOTA, Tetsuo, FUJISHIMA, Masatoshi, MATSUKUMA, Akito
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 1991
• Subjects: Aged; Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary - adverse effects; Aortic Diseases - complications; Arteriosclerosis - complications; Atrophy; Cholesterol; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications; Embolism - etiology; Female; Humans; Hypertension, Renovascular - therapy; Ischemia - etiology; Kidney - blood supply; Kidney - pathology; Kidney Failure, Chronic - etiology; Renal failure; Renovascular hypertension

Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty was performed in a 63-year-old diabetic woman who had renovascular hypertension with solitary functioning kidney and diffuse atherosclerosis. Angioplasty was technically successful, while thereafter, fever and myalgia of legs occurred with gradual increase...