nephroangiosclerosis
English
editEtymology
editFrom nephro- + angiosclerosis.
Noun
editnephroangiosclerosis (plural nephroangioscleroses)
- (pathology) sclerosis of the renal arterioles
- 2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).