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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS—Renal artery angioplasty and stenting may help improve outcomes in kidney transplant recipients who have stenosis in their transplanted renal artery, researchers reported at the Society of ...

The hypertensive index may predict the likelihood of kidney function improvement following renal revascularization for renal artery stenosis. The hypertensive index may distinguish which patients with ...

Credit: Medtronic. The Simplicity Spyral RDN system is designed to lower BP by delivering radiofrequency energy through the wall of the renal artery to denervate the kidney from sympathetic nerve ...

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 ...

Credit: Recor Medical. The approval was based on data from the RADIANCE II trial which included patient with mild to moderate hypertension who were adequately controlled with medications. The Food and ...