Renal artery stenosis can lead to high blood pressure and kidney damage. Learn about its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment approaches.

Vascular causes like renal artery stenosis can also contribute. Intrinsic renal: Due to direct damage to the kidney tissue (e.g. glomerulonephritis, acute tubular necrosis).

Renal artery Doppler ultrasound demonstrated mildly delayed upstroke in the proximal portion of the right renal artery, suggestive of possible stenosis. The resistive index on the right was 0.59 to ...

Objective To investigate the association between sustained postoperative anaemia and outcome after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Design Retrospective analysis of the IMAGINE trial, ...

Light-headedness and dizziness ACE inhibitors only offer modest improvements in blood pressure for most patients; hence, light-headedness and dizziness are rarely reported. These effects are more ...

Renal hypertension and renal artery stenosis often don’t have any symptoms until they become severe, according to NIDDK. However, over time, your kidneys may decline.

ARBs ARBs rates of side effects are low. 10 While cough and angioedema are possible side effects, the rate of these are much lower with ARBs than with ACE inhibitors. 10 These medications are also ...

Introduction Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a leading cause of refractory hypertension and ischemic nephropathy with a progressive decline in renal function (1). A principal cause of the occlusive ...

The 5-year update could help solidify the role of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in treating heart failure, years after the first evidence of their effectiveness emerged.

However, both types of medicines are not recommended for pregnant women and patients with bilateral renal stenosis or hyperkalemia (blood potassium level of more than 5.5 mmol/L).

All initiated ACE inhibitor or ARB therapy in 2004-2018 and had eGFR fall below 30 mL/min/1.73 m 2 afterward.