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Schematic of interactive mechanisms responsible for kidney injury in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS). A critical renovascular occlusion activates the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), elicits hypoxia, and increases oxidative stress. Together with atherosclerosis this process induces parenchymal inflammation, fibrosis, microvascular loss, and kidney dysfunction.
