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- Title
Transluminal vascular stent for ostial atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis.
- Authors
van de Ven, P J; Beutler, J J; Kaatee, R; Beek, F J; Mali, W P; Geyskes, G G; Koomans, H A
- Abstract
We implanted transluminal stents in 24 hypertensive patients with a critical atherosclerotic ostial renal artery stenosis (28 arteries). Immediate revascularisation was successful in all. Follow-up angiography at 6 months, available in 18 patients, revealed restenosis twice. In another patient restenosis was suspected and confirmed by angiography at 2 months. Hence, the total restenosis rate was 3 of 19 patients (16%) and 3 of 23 arteries (13%). Two patients developed renal insufficiency due to cholesterol embolism. In the remaining 22 patients renal function improved (n = 8) or stabilised (n = 14). Although all had to resume antihypertensive treatment, blood pressure normalised in 15 patients, improved in one, remained unchanged in five and worsened in one.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1995, Vol 346, Issue 8976, p672
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(95)92283-0