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Could a kidney infection be a sign of renal artery stenosis?
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No: Renal artery stenosis presents with difficult to control BP and decline in renal function.
Answered 6/10/2014
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No: Pathologies are quite different and unrelated. Cause of ras is usually atherosclerosis of the arteries associated with high cholesterol, obesity + smoking. Renal artery stenosis can occasionally be congenital + there is a segmental type of ras found also occasionally in children and young adults females>males. Kidney infections are due to bacteria multiplying in the kidney + causing inflammation.
Answered 10/7/2012
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Renal artery stenose: 44M asks if kidney infection be a sign of RAS? ANS: I have been doing RAS care fof 50 years and never seen a patient who also had kidney infection as a sign of RAS. But happy to do 2nd opinion now to help figure out what is going on.
Answered 11/17/2016
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