According to the findings from an American national research trial, people who suffer from a narrowing of the arteries that lead to the kidneys, or renal artery stenosis, do not experience better ...

More than 90% of the time, renal artery stenosis is caused by atherosclerosis, a process in which plaque made up of fats, cholesterol, and other materials builds up on the walls of the blood vessels, ...

Interv Cardiol. 2012;4(4):429-438. In most academic centers, the borderline lesions/indications and normotensive patients were not undergoing interventions, so these recent studies should not change ...

Factors that may play a role in these disappointing results regarding preservation of renal function include the global burden of atherosclerosis, renal parenchymal and small vessel arterial disease, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Differing from individuals without kidney disease, higher coronary artery calcification scores in patients on ...

RAS was diagnosed by angiography before December 2002, after that date it was diagnosed by angiography or CTA. 13 Angiography of the renal vasculature was performed using a standard technique.

In their study published in 1988, Pickering et al 1 described a group of patients with recurrent pulmonary edema and hypertension due to renal artery stenosis treated with renal revascularization.

Beside the many limitations of the paper that were acknowledged by the authors, a crucial issue regards the choice in their study, as in all other major trials in this field thus far, of the slope of ...

Severe renal arteriosclerosis (r-ASCL), or narrowing of the arteries in the kidneys, is linked to a significantly increased risk of heart disease in people with lupus nephritis (LN), according to new ...

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 ...

Renal artery stenting to open blockages in the kidney arteries may benefit patients who have historically been excluded from modern clinical trials, according to new recommendations for renal artery ...

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). Renal ...