Diuretics on their own are often not enough to treat hypertension precipitated from renal artery stenosis, and they are ...

ACE inhibitors can dramatically decrease renal function when bilateral renal artery stenosis is present. The dose of ACE inhibitors needs to be slowly up-titrated to a goal dose in patients with ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The renal arteries bring blood from the heart to the kidneys to help filter ...

As such, conventional contrast angiography cannot necessarily differentiate incidental RAS from a stenosis ... ACE-inhibitor augmented scintigraphy (also known as "renography" or a "nuclear renal ...

Two groups of drugs, the ACE inhibitors ... and renal function. Disordered functioning of the RAAS plays a key role in the pathophysiology of hypertension, coronary artery disease (CAD) and ...