Change of plasma renin activity between pre and post-ESWL

Jo, Eui Je; Shin, Se Jong; Choi, Sung Hyup

Abstract

ESWL is clearly an effective noninvasive treatment for a wide variety of urinary tract calculi. However, numerous clinical and experimental reports present evidence that ESWL can cause acute and chronic complications, especially new onset hypertension. We evaluated that relationship between hypertension and plasma renin activity with follow-up of 1 month after one session ESWL and round that 3.1% of patient showed new onset hypertension. The plasma renin activity was slightly elevated 24 hours after ESWL, but by 1 month after procedure the renin had decreased to near pre-ESWL level. However. these data represented no statistically significant change (p>0.05). Therefore, we believed that at the moment no relation between plasma renin activity and hypertension at least early period of post-ESWL (1 month).