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Renovascular surgery achieves favorable results in ~80% of patients with obstructive renal artery lesions.
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AT present there seems to be little question that obstructive lesions of the renal artery or its branches can give rise to a remediable form of hypertension. The recent reawakening of interest in renal and renovascular surgery as a form of treatment for certain hypertensive patients has been marked by an enthusiastic optimism reminiscent of that which has often temporarily accompanied other modes of treatment for hypertension in the past. Much attention has been devoted to methods for detecting the presence of obstructive vascular lesions and to surgical technics.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Favorable surgical results have been reported in approximately 80 per cent . . .
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Baker et al. (1962) conducted a review in Hypertension with obstructive renovascular lesions. Renal and renovascular surgery was evaluated on Favorable surgical results. Renal and renovascular surgery for hypertension associated with obstructive renal artery lesions has yielded favorable surgical results in approximately 80% of reported cases.
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