▪ Purpose: To review recent advances in detecting renovascular hypertension.▪ Data
Sources: Original English-language reports obtained through a MEDLINE search for the …

Objective.—To evaluate published reports of diagnostic methods for renovascular
hypertension, including Doppler ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, the …

Evidence has accumulated from clinical experience that the hypertensive urogram is not a
satisfactory screening test for differentiating hypertension due to renal artery stenosis from …

Renovascular hypertension is a potentially curable form of high blood pressure. However, it
is unclear how best to select patients who are likely to have renovascular hypertension, what …

To develop a screening test for identifying renovascular hypertension, the blood pressure
and plasma renin activity responses to an oral test dose of captopril were studied in 246 …

• A number of reports share the conclusion that the captopril test is an adequate screening
procedure for the detection of renovascular disease among hypertensive patients …

Renovascular hypertension is caused by two distinct conditions with different causes,
fibromuscular dysplasia and atheroma. Diagnosis of the former is both simpler and more …

Objective: To compare and contrast the diagnostic accuracy rates of two newer noninvasive
screening tests for renovascular hypertension, the most common curable cause of …

RENOVASCULAR hypertension is responsible for approximately 1% of all cases of
hypertension, 1-4 and affects as many as 600,000 people in this country alone. 5 The …

Captopril-stimulated renography is emerging as a useful diagnostic tool in the evaluation of
the hypertensive patient. The primary indica tion for renography with angiotensin convert ing …