Treatment outcomes
Renal artery stenosis caused by fibromuscular hyperplasia:
- transluminal angioplasty is technically successful in 90% of cases
- curative in 50% of cases
Renal artery stenosis caused by atherosclerosis:
- transluminal angioplasty is curative in 20% of cases
- complication rate of 10%
- mortality rate of 1%
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