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Renovascular Hypertension: Factors Affecting The Outcome Following Surgical Revascularisation, Malik Anas Rabbani, Alia Zaidi, Syed Sohail Ali, Bushra Anas, Asmooni Younus, Syed Mansoor Shah

Section of Nephrology

This study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan to evaluate factors that affect outcome following revascularisation in patients with renovascular hypertension. We included all the patients diagnosed to have renovascular hypertension, confirmed by renal angiography, between July 1997 and September 2000. Of the total 15 patients, nine were males and six were females. Eleven patients received venous grafts, three received polytetraflouroethyline (PTFE) grafts while one patient underwent angioplasty and stenting. All were followed-up for a period of nine months (median) with the range from 2 to 84 months. A total of 33.3% of the study patients …