Aortic and Renal Vascular Disease

Profiles in Aortic and Peripheral Vascular Disease

The indications for revascularization of the vertebral arteries are symptoms of vertebrobasilar insufficiency, namely, dizziness, visual disturbances, and confusion or coma. There is a great deal of variation from patient to patient in the severity of lesions causing symptoms . In some patients the degree of stenosis may be severe yet the patient may experience minimal or no symptoms; in others...

Evaluation of Renal Vascular Disease

Renal artery stenosis is a progressive disease, more than half of all high-grade stenoses progress to occlusion within only 2 years [1, 2]. A recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine has stressed the fact that renal artery stenosis with the consequences of stenosisinduced hypertension and chronic renal failure represents only a small entity among a number of overlapping disease...

Survival in renal vascular disease.

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a relatively uncommon but important potentially reversible cause of renal failure. Little is known about the natural history of ischemic renal disease secondary to RAS. In previous reports, these researchers examined the incidence and risk factors associated with RAS. The study presented here investigates the long-term follow-up of these patients, specifically the...

Vascular Function in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease

Biology of vascular calcification in renal disease.

The high rates of atherosclerotic vascular disease in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) cannot be fully explained by the excess of traditional risk factors. Interest has therefore arisen in the possible role of vascular calcification, which is increased in these patients and may effect plaque stability and have detrimental hemodynamic consequences. Considerable evidence has accumulat...