Medical Term:
arteriolar nephrosclerosis
Definition: renal scarring caused by arteriolar sclerosis resulting from longstanding hypertension; the kidneys are finely granular and mildly or moderately contracted, with hyaline thickening of the walls of afferent glomerular arterioles and hyaline scarring of scattered glomeruli; chronic renal failure develops infrequently.
Synonym(s): arteriolonephrosclerosis, benign nephrosclerosis
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