For most renal artery stenosis patients, a combination of two or more medications is used to relax the blood vessels to ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The ...

Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are a class of oral medications ... dramatically decrease renal function when bilateral renal artery stenosis is present. The dose of angiotensin receptor ...

inhibitor or an angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) effectively decreases rates of urinary protein excretion and slows progression of proteinuric renal disease. Some studies have indicated that ...

The hypertensive index may predict the likelihood of kidney function improvement following renal revascularization for renal artery stenosis. The hypertensive index may distinguish which patients with ...

The selective blockade exerted by ARBs is ... and renal function. Disordered functioning of the RAAS plays a key role in the pathophysiology of hypertension, coronary artery disease (CAD) and ...