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- Title
The ASTRAL Trial results revisited—to stent or not to stent in renal artery stenosis?
- Authors
Onuigbo, Macaulay; Frenandes, Regis; Nijhawan, Vinay
- Abstract
In this article the authors discuss the risk found in the angioplasty and stenting for renal artery lesions (ASTRAL). They muse on the controversial role of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA)/stenting in renal artery stenosis (RAS) despite the findings. The authors conclude that there is no treatment that fits all but the complex pathophysiologic processes involving RAS require treatment modalities that must be individualized.
- Subjects
RENAL artery diseases; KIDNEY blood-vessel surgery; TRANSLUMINAL angioplasty; ANGIOPLASTY; SURGICAL stents; DISEASE risk factors; PATIENTS
- Publication
QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2010, Vol 103, Issue 5, p357
- ISSN
1460-2725
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1093/qjmed/hcp202