Commentary: Shoot the renals!

Item Type:	Editorial
Title:	Commentary: Shoot the renals!
Creators Name:	Luft, F.C. and Gross, C.M.
Abstract:	Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) is a growing dilemma. The condition is increasingly common and can promulgate hypertension and result in renal failure. However, patients with ARAS generally die owing to their coronaries or cerebral vessels. Intervention, by stenting or angioplasty is beloved and believed, but not proved. The American Heart Association has recently published guidelines regarding patients at high risk for ARAS who are potential candidates for revascularisation. Since this phraseology includes practically every patient with atherosclerosis, these guidelines appear ill advised.
Keywords:	Balloon Angioplasty, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Renal Artery, Renal Artery Obstruction
Source:	Heart
ISSN:	1355-6037
Publisher:	BMJ Publishing Group
Volume:	93
Number:	12
Page Range:	1530-1532
Date:	December 2007
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2007.124677
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