title: Balloon catheter angioplasty. Which patients with renovascular hypertension are candidates?
abstract: Balloon catheter dilation of a stenotic renal artery can cure or enable easy medical control of renovascular hypertension when vessel narrowing is caused by fibromuscular dysplasia or an isolated atherosclerotic plaque in the main renal artery. This procedure is recommended instead of surgery for these lesions when primary medical management of hypertension fails.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy