Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Renal denervation does not appear to yield a significant reduction in renal artery dimensions on quantitative ...

This is a multicenter cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study on the prevalence and predictors of RAS in hypertensive patients undergoing coronary angiography between April 2007 and May 2008 at ...

SURGICAL relief of hypertension often depends on the removal of renal-artery obstruction. 1–8 The key to this procedure is the renal arteriogram, which allows a visualization of the renal vessels for ...

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is one of the causes of both arterial hypertension (renovascular hypertension) and chronic kidney disease (ischaemic nephropathy). The most common aetiology of RAS is ...

A number of imaging modalities exist to diagnose RAS, ranging from invasive diagnostic arteriography to noninvasive duplex ultrasonography, magnetic resonance arteriography (MRA), computed tomographic ...

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 ...

September 18, 2006 -- A prospective study suggests renal artery stenting using techniques similar to those used in coronary artery stenting can be done with high procedural success and good clinical ...

Introduction: The effect of stent-assisted percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for renal artery stenosis (RAS) on systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) as well as renal function, ...

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.

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 ...