How often does renal artery stenosis lead to end stage kidney disease

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%.

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