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  • Title: Reliability of ACE inhibitor-enhanced 99Tcm-DTPA gamma camera renography in the detection of renovascular hypertension.
    Author: Jensen G, Moonen M, Aurell M, Granerus G, Volkmann R.
    Journal: Nucl Med Commun; 1993 Mar; 14(3):169-75. PubMed ID: 8455906.
    Abstract:
    Twenty consecutive patients with renovascular hypertension, proven by cure or improvement of hypertension at 1-year follow-up after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or surgical repair, were studied before intervention by means of gamma camera renography with 99Tcm-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (99Tcm-DTPA) at baseline and after angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition. Sixteen patients underwent bilateral renal vein catheterization for measurement of renal vein renin release and extraction ratios of para-amino-hippurate (PAH) and 51Cr-EDTA before and after acute ACE inhibition. With the limit for a significant change in relative side distribution of 5% or more after ACE inhibition on gamma camera renography 13 patients responded (Group 1), while seven patients (Group 2) had unchanged side distribution. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR), measured with 99Tcm-DTPA, in the affected kidney decreased in Group 1 from 26 +/- 16 ml min-1 to 11 +/- 12 ml min1 (P < 0.0005), while GFR was unchanged in the affected kidney in Group 2, 26 +/- 13 ml min-1 versus 29 +/- 13 ml min-1. Extraction ratios of PAH and 51Cr-EDTA for the affected kidney in Group 1 decreased from 80 +/- 18 to 73 +/- 21% (P < 0.05) and from 16 +/- 5 to 7 +/- 5% (P < 0.005), respectively, while in Group 2 the PAH extraction ratio was not significantly changed, 86 +/- 5 versus 81 +/- 14%, but the 51Cr-EDTA extraction ratio for the affected kidney also decreased from 16 +/- 3 to 8 +/- 4% (P < 0.005). All patients had lateralization of renal vein renin to the affected kidney.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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