A kidney ultrasound uses high frequency sound to produce video and still images of your kidneys. ... People may also call this a renal ultrasound. ... Renal artery duplex scanning. (n.d.) ...

African-American race, peripheral artery disease, and diabetes mellitus increased the likelihood of a renal ultrasound by 51%, 61%, and 32%, respectively. From the June 01, 2012 Issue of Renal and ...

Brief pulses of ultrasound delivered to nerves near the kidney produced a clinically meaningful drop in blood pressure in people whose hypertension did not respond to a triple cocktail of ...

Most often seen in older people with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), renal artery stenosis can worsen over time, often leading to hypertension (high blood pressure) and kidney damage.

The simple surgical procedure involves threading a catheter up to the renal arteries via an artery in the leg. Ultrasound energy is then used to, “thermally ablate and disrupt the renal ...

When denervating only the main renal arteries, systolic daytime ambulatory blood pressure fell by an average of 6.5 mm Hg with radiofrequency ablation and 13.2 mm Hg with ultrasound ablation through 3 ...

Direct visualisation of the main renal arteries with duplex ultrasound combined with Doppler spectral waveform analysis in the main and segmental renal arteries 31,33,34,35,36,37,38,39 does not ...

During the treatment, Baylor Scott & White's interventional cardiologist Dr. Robert Stoler uses a catheter to send ultrasound or radiofrequency (heat) energy to the renal arteries, the blood ...

Ultrasound therapy calms overactive nerves in the renal artery, disrupting signals that lead to hypertension. The therapy is delivered to the nerves via a thin catheter that is inserted into a ...

A promising new study is documenting the long-term effects of a novel surgical procedure using ultrasound to reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension. It's hoped the one-off procedure ...

The FDA approved the first renal denervation device to treat adults with hypertension not adequately controlled with lifestyle changes and medications, ReCor Medical announced.The ultrasound renal ...