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.

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

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 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).

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Treatment of renal artery stenosis Date: August 22, 2014 Source: University Hospitals Case Medical Center Summary: Renal artery stenting to open blockages in the kidney arteries may benefit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is an important cause of arterial hypertension and chronic kidney disease. The aims of our study were to assess the prevalence of RAS and to examine the frequency of ...

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 ...

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 ...