Is Renal Artery Stenting the Correct Treatmentof Renal Artery Stenosis?

Is renal artery stenting the correct treatment of renal artery stenosis? The case for renal artery stenting for treatment of renal artery stenosis.

The case favoring renal artery stenting for individuals with renal artery hypertension is largely circumstantial. At best, the clinical evidence presented in this discussion is derived primarily from nonrandomized cohort studies. It would certainly be easier to argue that medical therapy is preferred for such individuals because there are 3 published randomized clinical trials that concluded ju...

Is renal artery stenting the correct treatment of renal artery stenosis? Case against angioplasty and stenting of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis.

Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a relatively common problem, estimated to affect between 1% and 5% of patients with hypertension.1,2 Given the high prevalence of hypertension, it follows that there are from 2 million to 4 million individuals with RAS in the United States alone. A challenging feature of the disease is the high incidence of adverse cardiovascular events in affected...

MITRAL STENOSIS COMPLICATED BY RENAL ARTERY EMBOLISM

Six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. In five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. The diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. All had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ...

Bilateral renal artery stenosis.

A 49-year-old Hispanic female was admitted to the hospital with sepsis and an infected upper extremity arteriovenous fistula dialysis port. Her medical history was significant for dialysis-dependent, endstage renal disease for the previous six years. Additional history was limited due to language barriers but included hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Blood cultures from admission grew Staphyloc...

Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis