Renal arteriography is an imaging test or X-ray used to see the blood vessels in your kidneys. The test can help your doctor identify different health conditions. These include aneurysms (ballooning ...

Treatments commonly used to prevent acute kidney failure and its complications arising from common angiography procedures make no difference to health outcomes, a major new study has found. A team of ...

SURGICAL relief of hypertension often depends on the removal of renal-artery obstruction. 1–8 The key to this procedure is the renal arteriogram, which allows a visualization of the renal vessels for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inorganic dietary nitrate reduced risk for contrast-induced kidney injury in high-risk patients having an ...

Feb. 5, 2003 — Two recent studies provide evidence for changing clinical practice regarding protecting those at risk for renal insufficiency from contrast angiographic studies. The first study, ...

MONTREAL—Patients who experience acute kidney injury (AKI) after undergoing coronary angiography have more than double the long-term risk of dying and a 74% greater likelihood of being hospitalized ...

coronary angiography Contrast-associated acute kidney injury occurred in 9.5% and 9.1% of patients receiving IV sodium bicarbonate and acetylcysteine, respectively, rates which did not differ ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “As a result of that, there is widespread utilization of these interventions in clinical practice, despite the ...

"These are disappointing results of this device and drug combination. However, RONDA is a small study and the conclusions that can be obtained are limited." Presenter: Matthew J. Price, MD (Scripps ...

HealthDay News — For patients at high risk for renal complications who are scheduled for angiography, there is no benefit with intravenous sodium bicarbonate over sodium chloride or with oral ...

The cardiac evaluation and management of patients with stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease prior to renal transplantation is a collaborative effort between nephrologists and cardiologists. Concerns ...