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 ...

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

Any improvement in GFR will increase ACE inhibitor renal clearance (if the ACE inhibitor is one that is renally cleared) and in so doing do away with the original basis for the hypotension.

effectively decreases rates of urinary protein excretion and slows progression of proteinuric renal disease. Some studies have indicated that concomitant administration of an ACE inhibitor and an ...

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 ...