How often does renal artery stenosis lead to end stage kidney disease?
In some series of patients receiving dialysis, atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis may lead to end-stage kidney disease in up to 15% of patients. However, in the most recent United States Renal Data Service report, which is a registry that tracks various data on virtually all patients receiving dialysis in the United States, the incidence of renal artery stenosis as the cause for end-stage kidney disease was only 0.6%.