November 18th, 2013
No Value for Renal-Artery Stenting in CORAL
Larry Husten, PHD
Previous small studies have failed to find any benefit associated with renal-artery stenting, but the trials have been small and were not powered for clinical outcomes. Now, the CORAL (Cardiovascular Outcomes in Renal Atherosclerotic Lesions) trial, presented at the American Heart Association meeting and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, offers strong and persuasive evidence that […]
November 18th, 2013
What’s the Moral from CORAL?
Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD
Rick Lange and David Hills ask, “Should we stop screening for renal artery stenosis?”