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Normal-Appearing Captopril MAG-3 Renal Scintigraphy in Hemodynamically Significant Renal Artery Stenosis

A Case Report

Section of Hypertension and Vascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hines Veteran Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois

William B. White

Section of Hypertension and Vascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hines Veteran Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois

Nicholas C. Friedman

Section of Hypertension and Vascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hines Veteran Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois

The finding from a normal-appearing angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor renal scan is generally reassuring to the physician screening for renovascular hyperten sion. In fact, the false-negative rate for captopril scintigraphy is very low. Possible reasons for false-negative scans have not been well documented. A fifty-two-year-old man was evaluated and found to have renovascular hypertension on two occasions, at initial presentation and again eight months later (restenosis had occurred). Renovascular hyper tension was present on both occasions as judged by decline of blood pressure following angioplasty of right renal artery stenosis (80% and 70% stenosis on the two occasions, respectively). However, ACE-inhibitor renal scanning with 99mTc MAG-3 gave disparate results on the two occasions. The first study using oral captopril (25 mg) indicated a low probability of renal artery stenosis, whereas the second study done with the patient regularly taking lisinopril (10 mg daily) was markedly positive. Possible reasons for the initial negative study include poor absorption of oral captopril or inade quate inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system by the 25 mg dose.

Angiology, Vol. 46, No. 10, 929-935 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979504601008


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