PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Garovic, Vesna D.
AU  - Kane, Garvan C.
AU  - Schwartz, Gary L.
TI  - Renovascular hypertension: Balancing the controversies in diagnosis and treatment
DP  - 2005 Dec 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 1135--1147
VI  - 72
IP  - 12
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/12/1135.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/12/1135.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2005 Dec 01; 72
AB  - There is considerable controversy about how to test for renovascular hypertension and, with the development of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA) and stenting, how to treat it. Which noninvasive diagnostic test should be considered, and when is renal angiography called for? Which patients will benefit from conservative medical therapy, and when is PTRA appropriate?