Renal Artery Aneurysms: A Report of 16 Cases

Natural History of Renal Artery Aneurysm Elucidated by Repeated Angiography and Pathoanatomical Studies

“…Once discovered, most aneu rysms remain unchanged until the patient either is oper ated upon or dies of an unrelated disease. Silent aneu rysms often show radiological or pathoanatomical signs of high age (calcification, arteriosclerosis and thrombosis) whereas most well-examined ruptured aneurysms lack these signs [1,3,[9][10][11]. We therefore presume that rup ture occurs in newly formed aneurysms, i.e.…”

Hypertension and Renal Artery Stenosis with Aneurysm Formation in a Solitary Kidney in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis

“…Reconstructive operations have a high failure rate (Ekestram, 1964;Clunie et al, 1971), and the control of renovascular hypertension by nephrectomy has been disappointing (Smith et al, 1970). Renal artery stenosis and aneurysm formation occurring in patients with solitary kidneys is extremely rare and only 5 other cases have been reported, none with neurofibromatosis (MathC, 1948;Harrow and Sloane, 1959;Slaney, Ashton and Dawson-Edwards, 1964;McKiel, Graf and Callahan, 1966;Oschner and Busch, 1969).…”