The current reference standard for the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis (RAS) is intra-arterial angiography. No single screening method that identifies patients who require this invasive procedure ...

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A CT angiogram can provide detailed imagery of the blood vessels that go into the kidneys to help diagnose renal artery stenosis. (Photo Credit: ZEPHYR/Science Source) Most of the time, renal artery ...

Dr. Conti: I'm Richard Conti in Hawaii. With me is Dr. Michael Jaff, a recognized vascular medicine expert, and we're talking about the controversy surrounding "Renal Artery Intervention: Who Gets ...

Recent trials of percutaneous revascularization for the treatment of renal artery stenosis have been disappointing. In many cases, essential hypertension coexists with the presence of renal artery ...

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 ...