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What does a renal/artery sonogram check for and discover?
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Arterial stenosis: Looking for blockage - stenosis - (fibrointimal hyperplasia) of the renal artery at the end of the vessel near your kidney. This is a disease that causes refractory hypertension in young females. Nonsteroidals can cause HTN as well.
Answered 6/10/2014
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