Renovascular disease is an uncommon but important cause of hypertension in children. It is
usually diagnosed after a long delay because blood pressure is infrequently measured in …

Radionuclide renal scintigraphy provides important functional data to assist in the diagnosis
and management of patients with a variety of suspected genitourinary tract problems, but the …

RAAS, a major pharmacological target in cardiovascular medicine, is inhibited by
pharmacological classes including angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACEIs) …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is perfectly suited for quantitative imaging of the
kidneys, and the recent improvements in detector technology, computer hardware, and …

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) decrease the glomerular filtration rate and
renal blood flow in the clipped kidneys of early 2-kidney, 1-clip Goldblatt hypertensive rats …

We aimed to investigate the clinical curative effect of percutaneous renal artery stent
implantation (PTRAS) in the treatment of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS), and to …

Although renovascular disease remains defined as a stenosis of the main renal artery or its
proximal branches (renal artery stenosis [RAS]), its clinical overview has changed …

For almost three decades, noninvasive radionuclide procedures for the evaluation of renal
disease have been important components of nuclear medicine practice. With the …

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

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