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Renal artery stenosis
Stenosis is narrowing so renal artery stenosis is narrowing of an artery that sends blood to you kidney. The effect usually is your blood pressure goes up and in my experience this is the most difficult kind of high blood pressure to manage using medicines. It usually requires some kind of repair - surgery or dilatation.
Dr. Fred McCurdy reviewed this
47 year experience in Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis
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