Awareness, Investigation, Management, and Prevention
Keynote lecture Renal revascularization: a lost art? When is it imperative and which technique? José Fernandes e Fernandes (Portugal) Secondary renal arterial hypertension is mostly due to atherosclerosis (80%), which is often found in men >50 years. Most of the atherosclerotic lesions occur in the ostia or the proximal segment of the renal artery, where 20% have renal atrophy. A minority of renal arterial hypertension is caused Takayasu’s disease, spontaneous dissections, aneurysms, and fibromuscular dysplasia (10%). Fibromuscular dysplasia is found in women, where the lesions are centered in the distal two-thirds of the artery, where 90% of the lesions are…
