Key result
Aortic intimal sarcoma can masquerade as bilateral renal artery stenosis, leading to resistant hypertension, acute kidney injury, and complications like acute limb ischemia.
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Aortic intimal sarcoma is a rare tumor that can masquerade as bilateral renal artery stenosis and lead to severe complications such as acute limb ischemia and kidney failure.
Rare aortic sarcomas merit consideration in atypical resistant hypertension; this case leaves open optimal diagnostic strategies.
Aortic intimal sarcoma is a rare tumor with poor prognosis. The most common manifestations are thromboembolic phenomena and vascular obstruction. We present a case of aortic intimal sarcoma causing bilateral renal artery stenosis which manifested as resistant hypertension and acute kidney inury. Multiple attempts to stent the renal arteries were unsuccessful. Eventually the patient developed acute limb ischemia and oliguric kidney failure as complications of the primary tumor.
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Sethi et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Aortic intimal sarcoma causing bilateral renal artery stenosis (n=1). Renal artery stenting was evaluated on Clinical outcome. Aortic intimal sarcoma can masquerade as bilateral renal artery stenosis, leading to resistant hypertension, acute kidney injury, and complications like acute limb ischemia.
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