[Renovascular hypertension due to Takayasu arteritis--a case report].

A 18-year old women with bilateral renal artery stenosis and renovascular hypertension as a part of Takayasu's disease is presented. Takayasu's disease is a chronic arteritis of unknown origin, primary affecting aorta and its branches. The disease is the most common in young women and is more common in the countries of eastern Asia in comparison with Western countries.

[Renovascular hypertension--diagnosis and treatment].

The approach and treatment of renovascular hypertension are presented. The study include 65 patients with severe arterial hypertension (31 men and 34 women), mean age 52 years, 26 of them with renovascular hypertension. Along with the usual diagnostic work-up, renal angiography using Seldinger method and renin measurement were performed in all patients through renal vein.

[Diagnostic and treatment of renovascular hypertension in the patient with horseshoe kidney].

A patient with renovascular hypertension and horseshoe kidney is presented. Diagnostic work-up consisted of ultrasonography, color-Doppler of renal arteries, dynamic scintigraphy with captopril test, separate renin, intravenous urography and computed tomography. Renal angiography revealed several aberrant renal arteries with significant fibromuscular dysplasia of the proximal artery of the right kidney.

Syncope caused by carotid body tumor.

A 71-year-old woman with a syncope and carotid body tumor is described. On palpation of the tumor on the left side of the neck, the patient felt vertiginous and has a syncope, while ECG showed an asystolic pause of 7.6 s.