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nephrosclerosis

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nephrosclerosis [¦nef·rō·sklə′rō·səs]
(medicine)
Sclerosis of the renal arteries and arterioles.


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The patient was diagnosed with chronic renal failure secondary to hypertensive nephrosclerosis and prescribed hemodialysis and blood transfusions.
His acute renal failure (Table 1) was treated with hemodialysis; it was attributed to acute tubular necrosis from dehydration and intravascular hemolysis, superimposed on chronic renal insufficiency from hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
 
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