Rare disorder, affecting about 12 people per 100,000, 90% of which are female, usually requires medication, angioplasty, stenting of the blocked renal arteries and/or surgery.

Living kidney donors who are overweight or obese have increased blood pressure within the remaining kidney—which could explain the increased long-term risk of kidney damage previously found in ...

Six clinically healthy captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) were anesthetized twice using two different drug combinations to investigate if blood pressure and kidney blood flow are affected by ...

New kidney research is raising concerns that long-term use of ACE inhibitors and other drugs commonly prescribed to treat high-blood pressure and heart failure could be contributing to kidney damage.