The RASCAD trial investigated the potential benefit of renal artery revascularization versus medical therapy in patients with renal artery stenosis and coronary artery disease. Surprisingly, renal ...

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

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 ...

It is also known that atherosclerotic RAS, if untreated, can progress to occlusion and renal atrophy can occur in the setting of severe stenotic disease without arterial occlusion. In several series, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS), the strength of evidence for the relative benefits and harms of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty with ...

Renal arteriography is an imaging test or X-ray used to see the blood vessels in your kidneys. The test can help your doctor identify different health conditions. These include aneurysms (ballooning ...