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The HTN really seems to be stubborn. Wouldn't the Nephrologist be aware if renal artery stenosis is causing the HTN? What tests are able to determine if there is renal artery stenosis? Is it via blood test or CT scan/ultrasound? Which medication would you consider increasing? In regards to the prograf, currently taking 2.5mg 2x daily. Almost one year post transplant. Very worried. As always, thank you for answering my questions.

Hi, I was diagnosed with renal artery stenosis last june out of the blue when my bp went up at a routine dental appt. I had normal bp and other values just that prior january (ekg, stress echo, carotid doppler, 24 hr bp monitor, holter monitor, cholesterol was a bit high 245). I did not want to go on meds, so I begged for a renin-aldosterone test and the aldosterone was up, so they did a renal doppler which showed a blocked in the left renal artery that was very severe.

I had renal artery stenosis, that is the main artery to your kidneys, what was your creatin, I know I did not spell that correctly, that determines if it is renal artery or not a 2+ in that area is very dangerously high. Adrenal I thought was part of the brain? Demand from you doctor to run tests on that, it is your body. Hope I could be of help to you.

hi, Two days back my father (67 yrs/ with BP) complained anout the chest pain, so we did the Angiography after consultion 2or3 doctors. The result is Procedure:CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY LEFT MAIN - :is normal LAD - is a type 3 vessel shows 90% proximal discrete stenosis With slow flow distally.D1 & D2 appears normal. LCX -: non-dominant vessel shows 50% stenosis in its distal segment.

I had a 64 slice CTA Renal Arteries test in January and it was fine. Is that the same as a renal US to rule out renal artery stenosis? If yes, would you still recommend seeing a nephrologist? Thank you Velan.

Normal LAD : Type III LAD has 50% proximal stenosis followed by eccentric 95% stenosis before D1 and 90% - 95% long segment stenosis astride D2. Distal LAD exhibits TIMI - III flow D2 has 90% ostial stenosis LCX : Non-dominant LCX has 70% proximal stenosis followed by 90% stenosis after OM1. Major OM1 is normal. RCA : Dominant RCA has mid luminal irregularities in the proximal and mid segment.

It makes no sense that people would have to die trying to find out if they have fibromuscular dysplasia or renal artery stenosis or carotid artery stenosis. I am blocked in my left renal artery and they want to go straight to an angioplasty (which they need dye for) and my right renal is start to narrow. My left carotid has homogenous plaque and my right carotid is looped. There is no hope for me at this point since I can't have dye.

My doctor ordered a blood work up and a regular ultrasound of my kidneys, but nothing was found. I did some research, and Renal artery stenosis seemed likely to pertain to my situation (with PAD hitory). Are there any other causes I could discuss with my doctor?

1.Right Coronary Artery:-RCA is a large dominant vessel.there is ostcal plaquing followed by proximal plaque-eccentric producing a maximum of 95%stenosis.the mid RCA has two areas of stenosis producing maximum of 95% stenosis. PDA & PLV are small calibre disease free vessels. so my question is that should i go for operation or stents if possible ??

d first look at the kidney - looking at renal stenosis (a blockage in a kidney artery) which results in too much renin and aldosterone hormone. An MD would listen there for a bruit. If not that, then maybe a kidney infection, which can be tested in the urine The other hormone as a culprit would be adrenalines, as in a pheochromocytoma or super stress.

I also had renal artery stenosis, which means that one of my kidney arteries was narrowed with a ballooning immediately after that. I had to wait three weeks to see the kidney doctor and then another three weeks to see the vascular surgeon. I finally had an angioplasty (another three weeks later) done on my renal artery. There is nothing that can be done for the PKD, but that's ok because its not bothering me right now.

Also, since you are requiring multiple blood pressure agents and still have a very elevated blood pressure, you should really be evaluated for renal artery stenosis (blockages in your kidney arteries) because this is a reason for elevated blood pressure requiring many agents and once you have bockages in one vascular bed (heart arteries), you are at risk for having atherosclerosis in other vascular beds such as the kidneys. Hope this helps!

The fact that one kidney was smaller than the other does possibly suggest that you may have something called renal artery stenosis (a possible blockage in the small kidney's main artery) so you need to be more formally evaluated for this once your insurance clears you. It is ok to take a multivitamin but for now, however we would recommend no other herbal supplements or over the counter weight loss agents, or pseudoephedrine-containing agents which can elevate blood pressure.

Hi, I am really in need of your help. If this isn't the right place for this post, or there is a better place for it, please let me know. Roughly 5 weeks ago, my 2 year 4 month old boy started acting very lethargic and just overall weird. After four trips to the hospital / clinic, the doctors finally identified that his blood pressure was dangerously high, like 145/100.

Severe aortic stenosis or symptomatic mitral stenosis should be addressed before undergoing an elective surgery. From your description, it doesn't sound like any of these issues pertain to you -- while you do have heart failure, you are treated medically, and if your symptoms and volume status are controlled, then you are probably safe to undergo surgery. A lot depends on your fuctional capacity.

For insight on collateral vessel development involves some preliminay setting so we all can be on the same page. The term "stenosis" can refer to an abnormal narrowing of an artery, usually of a discrete segment. Stenosis can also refer to a reduced cross-sectional area of a heart valve when it opens. In the case of an artery, stenosis most commonly most commonly occurs in large distributing arteries such as coronary, renal, cerebral, iliac and femoral arteries.

Nephrologist or HTN specialist are usually the best physicians to deal with difficult BP issues. I would suggest getting a renal vascular US to rule of renal artery stenosis which can sometime be a cause of poorly controlled HTN.

why would a MRI show a 60% in the left renal artery but the catherazation show nothing

s so young, so first step is cardiologist for an Echo and then maybe nephrologist to check kidneys and see if there is a renal artery stenosis.. Have you had your kidneys checked? What is your family history?

The subclavian artery is not a coronary artery. Therefore a *blockage* in that will not cause a heart attack. A heart attack (MI), is heart muscle dying from lack of blood carrying oxygen, from blockages in coronary artery disease. A severely stenotic subclavian *could* be from an entirely different disease process. I am not a physician, however, and this would not be a common disorder and there may not be a simple solution either, sorry to say.

Dear sir, my father, 73y.o., has suffered MPI suggestive of extensive ischemia in anterolateral and inferior wall, while fuctioning on a single kidney with mild chronic renal failure. The coronary angiography findings are the following: - LAD: extensive diffuse disease from the proximal segment to mid/distal. Maximal luminal stenosis of about 70% proximally.

But nothing I see talks about swelling of hands as a symptom - which she also has (no rash on hands). On a sidenote she was recently diagnosed with renal artery stenosis, so I wonder if this isn't a vascular issue.

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