Purpose Radionuclide renography with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition
plays an important role in the diagnosis of haemodynamically significant renal artery …

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors as well as angiotensin II receptor
antagonists are able to prevent the vasoconstrictive effect of angiotensin II on the efferent …

Captopril renography is a reliable, widely used test for the functional diagnosis of
renovascular hypertension. Well-recognized drawbacks of the procedure include reduced …

Background Captopril renography (CR) has been shown to improve the effectiveness of
renal scintigraphy in renovascular hypertension, by inhibiting angiotensin-converting …

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a rare cause of hypertension. Radiological tests can disclose
the morphological changes, but not their functional effect on renal function and perfusion …

Captopril-stimulated renography is widely used to screen selected groups of hypertensive
patients for renal vascular disease. Evaluation of the test is a complex task. Lack of …

AIM: To determine the accuracy of captopril renography (CR) and gadolinium-enhanced
breath-hold magnetic resonance (MR) angiography in the diagnosis of 50–99% renal artery …

Sixty-three hypertensive patients with probability of obstructive renal artery disease
underwent both Captopril renal scintigraphy (CRS) and echo-Doppler flowmetry (EDF) …

Renal artery stenosis is an important and potentially curable cause of hypertension.
Captopril renography is now recognized to have a high sensitivity and specificity in its …

Goldblatt first demonstrated the link between renal artery stenosis (RAS) and persistent
hypertension in 1934. 1 In this experimental work, he showed that hypertension could be …