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Article: Surgery Not Always Best for Narrowed Kidney Arteries; Study finds medication works as well in certain people, without the risks.
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- Consumer Health News (English)
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- November 11, 2009
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Byline: Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- People suffering from blocked renal arteries fare just as well when treated with medication as they do by having the narrowed artery opened and a stent implanted, British researchers report.
"In asymptomatic people with chronic kidney disease -- people with severe hypertension -- there is no benefit from subjecting them to a risky procedure of revascularization," or restoring the blood flow via artery-opening surgery, said Dr. Philip A. Kalra, a consultant nephrologist at Salford Royal Hospital Trust and the University of Manchester in England and a co-author of the study, ...