title: Renovascular hypertension: screening and modern management.
abstract: The diagnosis and management of patients with renovascular disease and hypertension continue to elude healthcare providers. The advent of novel imaging and interventional techniques, and increased understanding of the pathways leading to irreversible renal injury and renovascular hypertension, have ushered in commendable attempts to optimize and fine-tune strategies to preserve or restore renal function and control blood pressure. Large randomized clinical trials that compare different forms of therapy, and smaller trials that test novel experimental treatments, will hopefully help formulate innovative concepts and tools to manage the patient population with atherosclerotic renovascular disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Baumgartner
authors.forename: Lilach O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Lerman
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000379:methods; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000379:methods; D057911:Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000628:therapy; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000502:physiology; D015424:Reperfusion / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D057911:Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists