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When renal artery stenosis occurs, the body can sense an inadequate amount of blood is reaching the kidneys. The body then ...

Renal artery stenosis can lead to high blood pressure and kidney damage. Learn about its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment approaches.

Renal artery stenosis most commonly happens when cholesterol plaque builds up in the renal arteries (atherosclerosis). About 90% of cases of renal artery stenosis are from atherosclerosis.

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a condition in which the arteries that supply blood to the kidneys narrow. The renal arteries are responsible for carrying oxygen-rich blood to your kidneys, which ...

THE appreciation of renal-artery lesions as a cause of systemic hypertension began with the work of Goldblatt et al.1 in 1934. This experimental finding was immediately implicated in human hyperten ...

The term renal artery stenosis (RAS) applies to a cluster of disease conditions with varying etiologies. The most prominent among them are fibromuscular dysplasia and atherosclerotic RAS (ARAS).

Patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis treated with balloon angioplasty and stent, may find difficulty to control high blood pressure or progression of kidney failure. Published on ...

One study found that revascularization with renovascular stenting for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis reduces antihypertensive pill burden but not adverse cardiovascular or renal outcomes, ...

Did you know that certain medications can cause symptom of 'Renal artery stenosis'. Find these drugs listed on the page and be warned of similar symptoms as possible side-effects.

With this in mind, several noninvasive and invasive imaging and functional tools have been adopted for use in renal intervention to try and improve the prediction of which lesion and which patient ...

To the Editor: In their review article on renal-artery stenosis (Feb. 8 issue),1 Safian and Textor indicate that the results of surgery and interventional radiology are better for hypertension asso ...