polyarteritis nodosa is a multisystem necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium size muscular arteries in which involvement of the renal and viserat arteries is characteristic. the etiology is unknown but hepatitis b antigenemia is found in 30% of patients. drug exposures and hypersensitivity reactions are other possible causes. excellent therapeutic results have been reported in classic polya...

PURPOSE To determine angiographically the origins and variations of renal arteries. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 855 consecutive patients (163 females, 692 males; mean age, 61 years) living in the Cukurova region of Turkey, who underwent either aortofemoropopliteal (AFP) angiography for the investigation of peripheral arterial disease, or renal angiography for renovascular hyperte...

Latar Belakang: Rumah sakit memiliki standariasi pemilihan sekuens yang digunakan untuk pemeriksaan MRA. Di Instalasi Radiologi RSUD Arifin Achmad Provinsi Riau hanya menggunakan satu TOF dari dua sekuen tindakan MRA non kontras yaitu dan PC. Sehubungan dengan hal tersebut, terdapat perlu tujuan mengetahui menghasilkan citra pembuluh darah renal baik.
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Renal vasculatures variations was normally found. Awareness of these variation was useful in many clinical fields procedures. During the routine dissection of posterior abdominal wall of approximately a 67 year old male formaldehyde cadaver. The left kidney present with arterial variation. An accessory renal artery was detected arising from the lateral aspect of the abdominal aorta at level dis...

OBJECTIVE Urocortin is a peptide structurally related to corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), and the present study was performed to examine the effects of diabetes mellitus on the relaxation by urocortin of renal arteries from males and females. METHODS The response to urocortin was studied in isolated segments, 2 mm long, from renal arteries, from male and female, control (normoglycemic) a...

Introduction Variations of renal arteries occur frequently in general population with a reported prevalence of about 28–30% [1]. Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) angiography is a fast, reliable, non-invasive, cost effective, preferable imaging modality for comprehensive evaluation of renal vascular anatomy as it depicts exquisite anatomical details [2–4]. Two types of numerical variati...

We found 3 right and 2 left renal arteries with asymmetrical origins in a 61-year-old Korean male cadaver, whose cause of death was 'laryngeal carcinoma'. According to a previous classification, the first and second right renal arteries correspond to the early division and other renal arteries - to the extra renal arteries, except the first left renal artery as a typical renal artery. The third...