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Abstract
The aim of this work was to find out the prevalence and risk factors associated with renal artery stenosis in hypertensive patients with multi-vessel disease.
Patients and Methods: This study included 100 Egyptian hypertensive with multivessel coronary artery disease by coronary angiography. This study was conducted in order to find out the prevalence of renal artery stenosis in Egyptian hypertensive patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. During the coronary angiography, patients with 3 vessel disease undergone renal angiography in the same setting.
One hundred hypertensive patients referred for routine cardiac catheterization due to a history suggestive of ischemic heart disease and proved to have multivessel coronary artery disease were included in the study. Patients with no coronary lesions or < 3 diseased coronary vessels or 3 diseased coronary vessels but no 3 lesions ≥ 50%, creatinine level > 2.0 mg/dL and patients with known stenotic lesions in the renal arteries and/or previously diagnosed with aortitis syndrome were excluded from the study.
• All patients included in the study were subjected to: Full history taking, complete general and local examination, routine laboratory investigations (Blood sugar, lipid profile & kidney function tests) and coronary angiography with selective renal angiography.
Statistical analysis: Data were fed to the computer on statistical program SPSS/PC version 10.05 for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics were done including mean, standard deviation and prevalence. Comparison between continuous variables was done using paired student’s t-test. Comparison between categorical variables was done using chi-square test. P < 0.05 was considered significant.