Presence of renal artery stenosis may indicate risk

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 ...

On Renal Artery Stenosis

Eklöf, H. 2005. On renal artery stenosis. 54 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-506-1824-5. Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a potentially curable cause of hypertension and azotemia. Besides intra-arterial renal angiography there are several non-invasive techniques utilized to diagnose patients with suspicion of renal artery stenosis. Removing the stenosis by revascularization to restore unobstructed blood flo...

Renal transplant artery stenosis.

Renal transplant artery stenosis is a relatively frequent complication after transplantation, with an incidence of up to 23% being reported. The gold standard for the diagnosis still remains renal arteriography. Several imaging techniques are available to confirm the diagnosis (duplex-Doppler, nuclear magnetic resonance, spiral computerized tomography), and their use depends, in part, on the ce...

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