More than 90% of the time, renal artery stenosis is caused by atherosclerosis, a process in which plaque made up of fats, cholesterol, and other materials builds up on the walls of the blood vessels, ...

Ex vivo renal artery reconstruction is an extensive procedure used to treat complex aneurysms of the artery that supplies your kidney. It involves removing your kidney, repairing the artery, and ...

Recent trials of percutaneous revascularization for the treatment of renal artery stenosis have been disappointing. In many cases, essential hypertension coexists with the presence of renal artery ...

A renal allograft recipient (underlying disease IgA nephropathy) went into renal failure 10 days after transplantation. The donor kidney had multiple cortical cysts and 2 separate renal arteries. A ...

Pune: A complicated heart procedure conducted by doctors at a private hospital in Pune saved the life of a 60-year-old man ...

High blood pressure are leading causes of chronic kidney disease. Experts explain how hypertension damages kidney blood ...

Medtronic reported that it has begun testing an expansion of its renal denervation approach for dropping stubbornly high blood pressure, by also treating vessels outside of the kidneys. The company ...