Precautions have the patient return on the second day for a baselineACEIs can cause
significant hypotension. Therefore, study. When the study result is abnormal, specificity …

Identification of patients with renovascular hypertension (RVH) among the larger group of
patients with essential hypertension has been aided by a wide variety of in vitro and in vivo …

Numerous competing diagnostic modalities and the lack of data about therapeutic benefit
result in controversy concerning the iden tification and treatment of renovascular …

An this issue of the Journal, Sfakianakis and colleagues (7) present provocative
observations regarding the detection of renal artery stenosis (RAS) using captopril …

METHODS Selection of patients. Patients were referred from our Hypertension Center.
Those with significant obesity, renal insufficiency, renoparenchymal dis ease, or …

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition (ACEI) renography is the only imaging
examination that tests directly for the presence of renovascular hypertension (RVH); other …

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Emory University Medical Center,
Atlanta, Georgia; Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland …

The diagnostic work-up of renovascular hypertension is still controversial. The efficacy of
renal scintigraphy with technetium-99m diethylene triamine penta-acetate (DTPA) before …

Renovascular hypertension (RVH) occurs as the result of a severe decrease in renal blood
flow (renal ischemia) secondary to unilateral or bilateral branch or main renal artery stenosis …

All patients were studied using IA DSA, performed as an in-patient examination. A 5F or 7F
pigtail catheter was intro duced into the abdominal aorta via the left or right femoral artery …