... angiogenesis exacerbated STK microvascular loss. Fibrosis Inflammation Renal Artery Stenosis Renovascular Disease Renovascular disease (RVD) is one of the most common causes of secondary hypertension [ 1 ], accounting for 5–10% of the hypertensive population [ 2 ]. In most cases, RVD is caused...

...Philip M. W. Bath; Constantinos G. Missouris; Timothy Buckenham; Graham A. MacGregor 1. Platelet volume was measured in citrated blood in two groups of patients at risk of having atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis, namely (i) 30 patients with severe hypertension, and (ii) 44 patients...

...C. E. Grim; H. Y. Yune; M. H. Weinberger; J. P. Donohue 1. Twelve patients with renal artery stenosis due to fibromuscular disease (FMD) were treated with percutaneous transluminal dilation (PTD) and their results (first year) compared with those for 26 patients treated with attempted renal artery...

...U. Kuhlmann; W. Vetter; A. Grüntzig; E. Schneider; G. Pouliadis; J. Steurer; W. Siegenthaler 1. Percutaneous transluminal dilatation was performed in 37 patients with renovascular hypertension: 24 had atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis and 13 had fibromuscular dysplasia. 2. Percutaneous...

...%) of renal arteries could be completely outlined between the aorta and the first division of the renal arteries. 5. A sensitivity for the presence of renal artery stenosis of 92% and a specificity for the absence of artery stenosis of 99% can be calculated for angiotomography in the diagnosis of renal artery...

... renal artery stenosis renovascular hypertension Clinical Science (1980) 5 9 , 4 8 3 ~ 4 8 5 ~ 483s Transluminal balloon dilatation of renal artery stenosis causing hypertension: 18 months experience H. Y. YUNE*, E. C. KLATTE*, C . E. GRIM? AND M. H. WEINBERGERV Departments of +Radiology...

.... These findings suggest either that the affected kidney mainly secretes active renin, which is then converted into inactive renin in the extrarenal circulation, or that the affected kidney activates inactive renin. © 1979 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1979 renal artery stenosis...

... antihypertensive medication had arteriosclerotic renovascular disease. atheroma fibromuscular dysplasia renal artery stenosis renovascular hypertension © 1979 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1979 Cllnical Science (1979) 51,4459-447s Renovascular hypertension: comparison...

... stenosis and chronic renal failure. Comparison was made with a control group. Urine sodium excretion was measured separately from the two kidneys in patients with renal artery stenosis. 2. Compared with control, mean Na E was significantly increased in Conn's syndrome, and was normal in essential...

...A. B. Atkinson; J. J. Brown; R. Fraser; B. Leckie; A. F. Lever; J. J. Morton; J. I. S. Robertson 1. The converting-enzyme inhibitor captopril has been given in doses up to 450 mg daily to hypertensive patients with renal artery stenosis and to patients resistant to other therapy. 2. Captopril alone...

... of a vascular bed to high blood pressure results in a rapid damage of the vascular wall, irrespective of the state of the renin—angiotensin system. © 1976 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1976 angiotensin renal artery stenosis renin malignant hypertension Clinical Science...

... 1976 albumin blood pressure blood volume capillary Evans Blue heart failure liver cirrhosis packed cell volume renal artery stenosis renal failure renin Clinical Science and Molecular Medicine (1976) 51, 211s-213s. Significance of increase in labelled albumin disappearance rate...

...H. M. Pinedo; J. De Graeff; A. Struyvenberg 1. A comparison has been made of surgical and medical treatment in patients with arteriosclerotic renal artery stenosis and hypertension. 2. Immediate post-operative blood pressure was often normal, but frequently rose again later. After the sixth year...

...) determined in three different veins; affected side renal (A), contralateral renal (C), and peripheral veins (P). 2. Those with renal arterial stenosis in whom the PRA in the affected side renal vein was significantly higher (more than 14 ng/ml) than that in both the contra-lateral side and peripheral veins...

...U. Ruberti; A. Vegeto; E. Malan 1. An improved method of aorto-renal reconstruction in renal artery stenosis is described. 2. The Dacron prosthesis is inserted high in the aorta, thus avoiding a recurrent course and limiting turbulence. 3. The prosthesis is inserted end-to-end in the reconstructed...