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Rethinking hypertensive kidney disease: arterionephrosclerosis as a genetic, metabolic, and inflammatory disorder.
Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension - 1 May 2013
Kopp Jeffrey B
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Hypertension is the attributed cause of approximately 30% of end-stage kidney disease cases in the United States, but there has been controversy as to whether benign hypertension is a cause of chronic kidney disease. RECENT FINDINGS: The histology of chronic kidney disease attributed to nonmalignant hypertension is arterionephrosclerosis, with pathology in the terminal branches of the...
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