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 ...

High blood pressure is the most common chronic medical condition in the United States, and the most common identifiable cause is narrowing of a kidney artery, called renal artery stenosis. Renal ...

Recent findings have shown that aerobic exercise improves microvascular function and coronary artery function in patients with kidney disease, but further research is needed on the relationship ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Doctors found a fairly large aneurysm in the artery feeding 69-year-old Robert Lynn's kidney. If left untreated, the aneurysm - a bulging of an ...

All the body’s vital organs depend for their efficient functioning on a generous supply of arterial blood, and all deteriorate when that supply is curtailed. Thus it seems logical for surgeons to try ...

Prasugrel provided a more rapid reduction in platelet aggregation than clopidogrel in patients with stable coronary artery disease on dual antiplatelet therapy and an impaired renal function, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced a new data analysis from the CHAMPION clinical trial that evaluated outcomes in a subgroup of patients with ...

People with lower kidney function may have higher levels of several blood markers often used in research on Alzheimer's ...