Fibromuscular dysplasia.

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), formerly called fibromuscular fibroplasia, is a group of nonatherosclerotic, noninflammatory arterial diseases that most commonly involve the renal and carotid arteries. The prevalence of symptomatic renal artery FMD is about 4/1000 and the prevalence of cervicocranial FMD is probably half that. Histological classification discriminates three main subtypes, intimal, medial and perimedial, which may be associated in a single patient.

[Fibromuscular dysplasia].

Fibromuscular dysplasia is an idiopathic, segmental, nonatherosclerotic and noninflammatory disease of the muscle layer of arterial walls that leads to stenosis of small- and medium-sized arteries. Fibromuscular dysplasia preferentially affects young women. Although it can affect every arterial tree, it most often touches the renal and internal carotid arteries.

Diabetes as a marker of pheochromocytoma in hypertensive patients.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of diabetes in patients with pheochromocytoma and the probability of pheochromocytoma occurring in hypertensive patients with or without diabetes.

Setting: A tertiary, referral hypertension department.

Patients And Methods: We compared age, body mass index and the frequency of diabetes in 191 patients with pheochromocytoma and a random sample of 880 patients with essential hypertension.

Family study of the relationship between height and cardiovascular risk factors in the STANISLAS cohort.

Background: Short stature is a risk factor for coronary heart disease and is associated with an adverse cardiovascular profile. Mechanisms responsible for this association remain unknown. A genetic contribution to this association would imply a familial clustering between height and cardiovascular risk factors.

Familial aggregation of fetal growth restriction in a French cohort of 7,822 term births between 1971 and 1985.

An association between fetal growth restriction and increased rates of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood has been reported. This study evaluated familial aggregation of fetal growth restriction in term births. The population consisted of 3,505 sibships comprised of 7,822 full-term singleton infants born between 1971 and 1985 in Haguenau, France, and selected from a regional register of births.

Split renal function outcome after renal angioplasty in patients with unilateral renal artery stenosis.

The general use of bilateral rather than separate renal function evaluation has led to the publication of conflicting results concerning the effect of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA) on renal function, especially in patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate prospectively, in standardized conditions, split renal function (SRF) and GFR outcome after successful PTRA, by measuring single kidney GFR with synchronous inulin or (51)Cr-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid clearance and (99m)Tc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid scintigraphy, in a well-defined population of patients with unilateral renal artery stenosis. Thirty-two consecutive hypertensive patients (18 with atherosclerotic and 14 with dysplastic disease) with significant unilateral stenosis of the main native renal artery (> or = 60%) and normal renal function were included in the study.