ENCOURAGING RESULTS OF PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL RENAL ANGIOPLASTY IN SELECTED PATIENTS WITH PRONOUNCED RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION

Objective:Several randomized clinical trials have failed to show any benefit of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA) in patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS). PTRA is therefore not performed in many centers. We set out to determine whether there could be a subgroup