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Introduction. Hemorrhagic stroke is a serious and devastating complication of arterial hypertension, which leads to increased mortality in survivors even after the early recovery period. Being other target organs for arterial hypertension, kidneys take part in blood pressure regulation. Investigation of their peculiarities in such patients may provide valuable data on possible reasons of poor long-term prognosis in this category of patients. The aim of the study: to compare kidney ultrasound parameters and renal blood biochemistry tests between the post-hemorrhagic stroke hypertensive subjects in a stable phase of recovery period and the patients with arterial hypertension who had no cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events. Materials and methods. There were 100 subjects enrolled into the study. They formed two investigatory groups: the main (n=64; age – 52,2±8,41 years, M±SD years) and the control (n=36; age – 51,8±5,92 years) one. Hypertensive patients of the main group developed hemorrhagic stroke – subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) (n=42) or intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) (n=22) – ≥6 months prior to the examination conducted at this study. The control group consisted of patients with non-complicated arterial hypertension. In both groups of patients, the kidney ultrasound parameters and blood plasma urea, creatinine and uric acid concentration levels were determined. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated. Results. The indices of kidney ultrasound parameters in the main group and the control group were the following ones, respectively: the pole-to-pole size of the right kidney was 9,96±1,05 and 11,63±1,26 cm, the same size of the left kidney – 10,39±0,93 and 11,95±1,23 cm, p |
