Abstract
Renal arterial stenoses are clinically important due to two reasons. Firstly, they may cause arterial hypertension which can be cured by successful renal angioplasty and secondly, they may progress to complete arterial occlusion with resultant renal insufficiency. When the primary diagnostic tests strongly suggest renal arterial stenosis or when a strong clinical suspicion exists despite inconclusive or negative preliminary examinations, a suitable diagnostic modality becomes necessary to confirm the diagnosis. Arterial angiography is still considered the gold standard for definitive diagnosis although color doppler sonography, magnetic resonance (MR) angiography and of late computed tomographic angiography (CTA) as invasive or semi-invasive investigations have gained considerably in significance as competitive modalities to angiography (Prokop et al. 1993).
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Galanski, M., Prokop, M., Chavan, A., Schaefer-Prokop, C. (1994). CT Angiography of the Renal Arteries. In: Pokieser, H., Lechner, G. (eds) Advances in CT III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79116-1_9
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