Renal arteriography is an imaging test or X-ray used to see the blood vessels in your kidneys. The test can help your doctor identify different health conditions. These include aneurysms (ballooning ...

SURGICAL relief of hypertension often depends on the removal of renal-artery obstruction. 1–8 The key to this procedure is the renal arteriogram, which allows a visualization of the renal vessels for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Renal denervation does not appear to yield a significant reduction in renal artery dimensions on quantitative ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inorganic dietary nitrate reduced risk for contrast-induced kidney injury in high-risk patients having an ...

MONTREAL—Patients who experience acute kidney injury (AKI) after undergoing coronary angiography have more than double the long-term risk of dying and a 74% greater likelihood of being hospitalized ...

"These are disappointing results of this device and drug combination. However, RONDA is a small study and the conclusions that can be obtained are limited." Presenter: Matthew J. Price, MD (Scripps ...

HealthDay News — For patients at high risk for renal complications who are scheduled for angiography, there is no benefit with intravenous sodium bicarbonate over sodium chloride or with oral ...

Dr. Conti: I'm Richard Conti in Hawaii. With me is Dr. Michael Jaff, a recognized vascular medicine expert, and we're talking about the controversy surrounding "Renal Artery Intervention: Who Gets ...

The cardiac evaluation and management of patients with stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease prior to renal transplantation is a collaborative effort between nephrologists and cardiologists. Concerns ...

Background. A 36-year-old, previously healthy man presented to an accident and emergency department with right-sided abdominal pain 7 days after he sustained a trauma to his right flank. He was using ...

PARIS, France—Two new studies testing renal denervation are offering a ray of hope to a once promising technology that in recent years has suffered its share of high-profile setbacks. In these highly ...

San Francisco, CA—In a study originally designed to address the efficacy of using bicarbonate for the prevention of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing angiography, data presented at TCT 2013 ...