A) A small artery in the control kidney. B) A small artery in the kidney from a patient with chronic hypertension. The artery showed thickening and hyalinosis of the vascular wall. C) A small artery in the kidney from a patient with malignant hypertension. The artery revealed significant thickening of the vascular wall, myxoid degeneration of the intima, and obliteration of the lumen. The endothelial cells showed edema with enlarged nuclei and pale cytoplasm. Expression of eNOS in kidneys from hypertensive patients: Gu X, Herrera GA - International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease (2010). Not altered. CC.
Vascular diseases of the kidney are the condition affecting the blood vessel supplying the kidneys.
Examples of vascular diseases of the kidney include:
- Malignant nephrosclerosis
- Nephrosclerosis
- Renal artery stenosis
- Thrombotic microangiopathies involving the kidney
- Atheroembolic renal disease
- Atherosclerotic ischemic renal disease
- Diffuse cortical necrosis
- Renal infarcts
- Sickle cell nephropathy
