[PDF] from ntu.edu.twHM Hsiao, MD Dake, S Prabhu, MK Razavi… - 2011 - ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw 1. Introduction A stent is a small wire-mesh tube that can be deployed into a blood vessel and expanded using a small balloon (or self-expanded) during angioplasty to open a narrowed blood vessel. The expanded stent exerts radial force against the walls of the artery, thereby ... Related articles
[PDF] from hindawi.comL Polytimi, G Sofia… - 2011 - downloads.hindawi.com ... Clinical Study Close to Transplant RenalArteryStenosis and Percutaneous Transluminal Treatment ... 27 were diagnosed suffering from transplant renalarterystenosis (TRAS), whereas 4 had severe iliac arterystenosis proximal to the transplant anastomosis (Prox-TRAS). ... Related articles - View as HTML
WR Colyer… - Clinical Investigation, 2011 - Future Science The management of renal artery stenosis remains controversial with randomized trials suggesting that revascularization is no better than medical therapy. Thus all patients with atheromatous renovascular disease should be treated with medical therapy. However optimal therapy has not been ...
D Bolignano, L Zanoli, S Rastelli… - NDT …, 2011 - ndtplus.oxfordjournals.org INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is frequently associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and the presence of both RAS and CAD represents an unfavourable condition as it increases the risk of cardiovascular and renal events. With this study we aimed at ...
N Chalmers, J Moss… - Cardiovascular and interventional …, 2011 - Springer ... In the event, the patients recruited to ASTRAL did not have trivial disease. The majority had severe renalarterystenosis and/or impaired renal function. ... References 1. The ASTRAL Trial Investigators (2009) Revascularization versus best medical therapy for renalarterystenosis. ... Related articles - All 8 versions