title: Transcatheter therapy for the treatment of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis.
abstract: The preemptory challenge in this invited review was to provide a contemporary evidence-based analysis of how renal artery intervention effects renal function and hypertension while also addressing the efficacy in transplanted kidneys. The authors tailored the paper architecture in a way that provides a systematic review of the randomized and observational data relating to the impact of renal stenting in each of these clinical domains. When appropriate the authors include data from their experience with over 1 200 renal stent procedures. This contemporary literature review provides objective insight into the procedural risk and early outcomes following renal intervention based on observational study
  
  
  RESULTS
  However, well-controlled randomized trials and standardization of interventional technique with or without embolic protection is desperately needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Medicine, Vascular Medicine Division, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, 3100 MacCorkle Avenue SE, Charleston, WV, USA. jcampbell1229@verizon.net
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D017130:Angioplasty / Q000379:methods; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007677:Kidney Function Tests; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents