Prevalence of Renal Artery Stenosis in Autopsy Patients With Stroke

摘要: Background and Purpose—Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis commonly exists as one manifestation of more generalized atherosclerosis. It is a progressive but potentially curable disorder. Thus, information on involvement in atherosclerotic diseases could be important. We investigated the prevalence autopsied patients with stroke over 40 years age. Methods—From 2167 consecutive autopsy who died between 1980 1997, we studied 346 cases mean age 69±11 clinical evidence stroke. Results—Atherosclerotic (≥75% luminal area narrowing) was found 36 (10.4%). Patients were older had worse function. Renal 14.7%, 28.6%, 23.9% hypertension, insufficiency, aortic aneurysm, respectively. Extracranial carotid (>50% 101 (29.2%). Of patients, 2...