Renal artery stenosis can lead to high blood pressure and kidney damage. Learn about its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment approaches.

When renal artery stenosis occurs, the body can sense an inadequate amount of blood is reaching the kidneys. The body then mistakenly believes the blood pressure throughout the body is too low.

Renal artery stenting to open blockages in the kidney arteries may benefit patients who have historically been excluded from modern clinical trials, ... If left untreated, ...

Thus, a reimplantation of the left renal artery in the aorta was carried out. Stenosis of the renal artery by fibres from a crus of the diaphragm is a rare cause of renovascular hypertension.

For several days after the nephrostomy, the patient continued to have hypertension, and her serum creatinine did not decrease below 150 μM. For these reasons, and because the ultrasonographic data ...

Division of the left spermatic vein at its junction with the left renal vein facilitates exposure of the left renal artery. Moderate general hypothermia (temperature of about 92°F.), ...

Sectioning of the left kidney revealed a 2.5-cm aneurysm, probably of congenital origin, with a 1-cm full thickness laceration within the distal renal artery. There was evidence of previous rupture ...

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a condition in which the arteries that supply blood to the kidneys narrow. ... Left untreated, it can lead to permanent kidney damage.

The right renal artery is occluded just after its ostium (white block arrow), and the left renal artery has a severe proximal stenosis (white arrow). (B) ...

Selective left renal and midstream abdominal aortography demonstrated functional main-renal-artery stenosis in a 39-year-old man. This was associated with increased renin activity in the renal veno ...

The trunk of the left renal artery was normal. At abdominal aortography, fibromuscular dysplasia of the right renal artery and 2 cm saccular aneurysm of the left one were depicted.

Ex vivo renal artery reconstruction is an extensive procedure used to treat complex aneurysms of the artery that supplies your kidney. It involves removing your kidney, repairing the artery, and ...