Renal artery stenosis: Prognosis and symptoms

Brief overview Course and prognosis: disease development sometimes over years; untreated high risk of late complications such as hypertension and renal failure; frequent relapses despite therapy Symptoms: Vascular stenosis itself is asymptomatic; usually accompanying symptoms due to high blood pressure such as dizziness, headache, nausea, visual disturbances, low exercise tolerance, possibly shortness of breath Causes … Renal artery stenosis: Prognosis and symptoms

Renal artery stenosis

Synonyms in the broadest sense renal artery stenosis, renovascular hypertension, renal artery stenosis, atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis, fibromuscular renal artery stenosis Definition The vessels of the kidneys or only one kidney are affected by a pathological process in patients with renal artery stenosis (narrowing of the renal arteries). More precisely, a narrowing of the renal … Renal artery stenosis