Clinical study
Renal artery stenosis: A clinical-pathologic study in normotensive and hypertensive patients

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Abstract

Moderate or severe renal artery stenosis was found in 53 per cent of 295 unselected patients examined at necropsy; it was present in 49 per cent of 256 normotensive patients and in 77 per cent of thirty-nine hypertensive patients. Severe stenosis of the renal arteries was uncommon in normotensive patients less than fifty years of age; thereafter, the frequency increased with increasing age. Afferent arteriolar sclerosis of a moderate or severe degree was uncommon in normotensive patients less than sixty years old. The presence of atheromatous narrowing of the main renal arteries does not necessarily indicate a causal relationship to the presence of systemic hypertension.

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    From the Sections of Medicine, Roentgenology, and Experimental and Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota.

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