Inhibition of prostaglandins and angiotensin II: effects on renal function in hypertensive patients.
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A Ragazzini
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Interactive functional imaging of renal scintigraphy after captopril in the detection of global and segmental hypoperfusion.
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Changes in renal function during physical and mental effort.
Aim of the study was to evaluate the renal responses to physical and mental effort in essential hypertension by means of a non-invasive radioisotopic method. Renal uptake rate of Tc99m-DMSA was evaluated in 10 subjects. Starting from 5 to 15 minutes after dose injection counts over the kidney region were acquired by means of a gamma-camera time-activity curves were obtained for each kidney. In non-stimulated patients DMSA uptake rate increased regularly; in the remaining cases both isometric exercise and mental effort induced an abrupt reduction of the uptake rate which increased again after the end of the test. Although the relation of DMSA uptake rate to renal function is not yet fully understood, we tentatively interpret these results as indicating blood flow reductions during these stressful conditions.
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Kidney scintigraphy after ACE inhibition in the diagnosis of renovascular hypertension.
Suppression of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) by angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition may induce renal failure in patients with bilateral renal artery stenosis. Recent scintigraphic studies with the glomerular tracer technetium-99m-diethylenetriaminepenta-acetate (99m-Tc DTPA) indicate that in patients with unilateral renal artery stenosis, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) may be markedly reduced in the affected kidney after inhibition of ACE. This finding reflects the important role of the RAS in maintaining GFR (by increasing postglomerular resistance) in states of low renal perfusion pressure. Preliminary observations suggest that this scintigraphic test might be useful in the detection of renovascular hypertension.
Captopril↗