During the past eight years, we have encountered 9 patients, aged between 2 and 61 years, with renovascular hypertension. The renovascular hypertension in this series included Takayasu's disease with renal rtery stenosis, arteriosclerosis of
renal
artery, fibromuscular dysplasia of renal artery.
Aorto-renal bypass was performed in 8 patients, iliac-to-renal bypass in l patients have been followed form 2 months to 5.1 years.
Postoperatively, all patients' hypertension was improved. Only 2 patients need to take small dose of antihypertensive medication after discharge.
These dats indicated the good results of renovascular reconstruction for the patients with renovascular hypertension.
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