... impact the prognosis of patients with ischemic heart disease. Methods: Prospective cohort study. We used proportional hazards models to analyze the first onset of cardiovascular events in relation with RD, MD, or percentage of renal artery stenosis (RAS) in those with low-to-moderate RAS (10-70%) (n...

...M.E. Schachter; N. Zalunardo; C. Rose; P. Taylor; C. Buller; M. Kiaii; J. Duncan; A. Levin Background: Cardiologists often identify atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) during cardiac angiography. The importance of such ‘incidental’ ARAS (iARAS) is not known. The present study sought...

... ≥ 1.5 when RVR from the kidney with renal artery stenosis was compared to RVR from the contralateral kidney. Approximately 40% of patients with essential hypertension had positive RVR studies. Among patients with renal artery stenosis, surgical outcome was correctly predicted in 5 of 8 patients (63...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Renovascular hypertension Renin Renal artery stenosis Am. J. Nephrol. 3: 172-184 (1983) Renovascular Hypertension: An Update on Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment...

...Adeera Levin; Stuart Linas; Friedrich C. Luft; Arlene B. Chapman; Stephen Textor Renovascular hypertension is a recognized secondary potentially curable cause of hypertension since the work of Harry Goldblatt. Operative treatments for renal artery stenosis (RAS) have been offered for decades...

... (quantitative coronary angiography). Moderate to severe arterial stenoses were noted as significant angiographic findings. Although the prevalence of renal artery stenosis (RAS) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) has been extensively studied [ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ,] as well as the predictors...

... study investigated the incidence of renal artery stenosis (RAS) in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) using renal angiography. Methods: Renal angiography was performed immediately after coronary artery angiography in 141 patients with suspected CAD, including 59 males and 82 females...

...Jung Sik Park; Jee Hyun Park; Jae Young Kang; Won Seok Yang; Soon Bae Kim; Seong Wook Park; Seung Jung Park It is important to identify patients at risk for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis because renal artery stenosis is a progressive disease and a potentially correctable problem...

...Bernd Krumme; Przemyslaw Pisarski; Ulrich Blum; Günter Kirste; Peter Schollmeyer Background/Aims: Transplant renal artery stenosis usually develops in the later period after renal transplantation and is usually due to atherosclerosis and fibrosis at the anastomosis. A kinking renal artery stenosis...