Renal angiography in the follow-up examination of toxaemia of late pregnancy.

Abstract

A series of 35 patients with toxaemia of pregnancy is presented. These patients were subjected to renal angiography in order to diagnose any renal artery changes. The patients formed part of a series of 139 toxaemic patients, all of whom had been followed up by intravenous pyelography with normal renal findings. One patient showed a unilateral obstruction of the main branch of the renal artery, obviously of importance. Another patient was found to have a saccular aneurysm in the abdominal aorta. These changes were recorded in the group of patients with a history of hypertension preceding pregnancy, and with superimposed toxaemia of late pregnancy. The groups with pure preeclampsia showed no pathological findings, and renal angiography in these groups shed no additional light on the aetiology of toxaemia.