The Ask-Upmark kidney: a curable cause of hypertension in young patients.

J Hum Hypertens

Divisions of Nephrology and Pathology, Centre hospitalier universitaire, L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec Hospital, Québec, Canada.

Published: April 2005

We are reporting a case of arterial hypertension in a young woman who had an atrophic kidney with a cortical groove and histological features of the Ask-Upmark kidney. Her hypertension was renin dependent and the patient was cured following nephrectomy. Controversy on the pathogenesis of this clinical entity is briefly reviewed.

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