Renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia is a cause of refractory hypertension in the elderly

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-110

  Aqel, Raed ^a,b   AlJaroudi, Wael W ^a   Hage, Fadi G ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Fibromuscular dysplasia; Hypertension; Intravascular ultrasound; Renal artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY;

AGED; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 58149203579     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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