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  2. Renal artery stenosis - Wikipedia

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    Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the narrowing of one or both of the renal arteries, most often caused by atherosclerosis or fibromuscular dysplasia. This narrowing of the renal artery can impede blood flow to the target kidney , resulting in renovascular hypertension – a secondary type of high blood pressure .

  3. Hypertensive kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    Hypertensive kidney disease is a medical condition referring to damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure. It manifests as hypertensive nephrosclerosis (sclerosis referring to the stiffening of renal components). [2] It should be distinguished from renovascular hypertension, which is a form of secondary hypertension, and thus has ...

  4. Kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    The patient died with acute kidney injury. Kidney disease, or renal disease, technically referred to as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is an inflammatory kidney disease and has several types according to the location of the inflammation. Inflammation can be diagnosed by blood tests.

  5. Hypertension: A Guide to Causes, Risk Factors, Prevention & More

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    Renal artery stenosis (when the artery leading to your kidney is narrowed) Medications like birth control pills or cold medications. Risk Factors for Hypertension. There are many hypertension risk ...

  6. Acute kidney injury - Wikipedia

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    Acute kidney injury. Pathologic kidney specimen showing marked pallor of the cortex, contrasting to the darker areas of surviving medullary tissue. The patient died with acute kidney injury. Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), [1][2] is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within 7 days, [3] as ...

  7. Renovascular hypertension - Wikipedia

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    Antihypertensive, Stress reduction [1] Renovascular hypertension is a condition in which high blood pressure is caused by the kidneys ' hormonal response to narrowing of the arteries supplying the kidneys. [1] When functioning properly this hormonal axis regulates blood pressure. Due to low local blood flow, the kidneys mistakenly increase ...

  8. Renal artery - Wikipedia

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    Due to the anatomical position of the aorta, the inferior vena cava, and the kidneys, the right renal artery is normally longer than the left renal artery. [1] [6] The right passes behind the inferior vena cava, the right renal vein, the head of the pancreas, and the descending part of the duodenum. It’s somewhat lower than the left one.

  9. Renal ultrasonography - Wikipedia

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    ultrasound exam of kidneys. Renal ultrasonography (Renal US) is the examination of one or both kidneys using medical ultrasound. Ultrasonography of the kidneys is essential in the diagnosis and management of kidney-related diseases. The kidneys are easily examined, and most pathological changes in the kidneys are distinguishable with ultrasound.