Invasive assessment of renal artery atherosclerotic disease and resistant hypertension before renal sympathetic denervation.

Conclusions: Intravascular imaging and functional assessment of renal artery anatomy in patients with atherosclerotic disease may prove particularly suited to patients with refractory hypertension and multilevel vascular disease who are considered for endovascular therapies, either renal artery stenting or RSD.
PMID: 23807649 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)