Disease or Syndrome
renovascular hypertension
[ ree-noh-vas-kyuh-ler hahy-per-ten-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Renal hypertension
Definitions related to hypertension, renovascular:
  • (renovascular hypertension) High blood pressure secondary to renal artery stenosis.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (renovascular hypertension) The presence of hypertension related to stenosis of the renal artery.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Hypertension due to RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION or compression.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Renovascular hypertension is blood pressure elevation due to partial or complete occlusion of one or more renal arteries or their branches. It is usually asymptomatic unless long-standing. A bruit can be heard over one or both renal arteries in < 50% of patients. Diagnosis is by physical examination and renal imaging with duplex...
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
  • Renovascular hypertension (RVHT) reflects the causal relation between anatomically evident arterial occlusive disease and elevated blood pressure. The coexistence of renal arterial vascular (ie, renovascular) disease and hypertension roughly defines this type of nonessential hypertension.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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