Hulbert WC, Ettinger LJ, Wood BP, Anderson VM, Putnam TC, Rabinowitz R. Hyperreninemic hypertension secondary to radiation nephritis in a child.
Urology 1985;
26:153-6. [PMID:
3895709 DOI:
10.1016/0090-4295(85)90049-4]
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Abstract
Radiation injury to the kidney, first reported almost eighty years ago, may vary from subclinical changes in renal blood flow or enzyme activity to clinically significant hypertension and/or renal failure. A child with radiation-induced hyperreninemic hypertension was cured by nephrectomy. The microscopic, subclinical, and clinical changes of irradiation injury are reviewed. The etiology of radiation-induced hypertension, methods of radioprotection, and early detection of radiation renal damage are discussed.
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