Abstract
Maintaining renal function and renal parenchymal preservation depends among other factors on the kidney vasculature, contributing to this objective all the blood vessels from the the main renal artery to the glomerular capillaries. Many diseases with vascular substrate are responsible for the development of renal failure, although the pathogenesis, clinical findings, prognosis and treatment can be very heterogeneous. We will review in this chapter a group of systemic diseases with renal involvement as part of their clinical presentation: nephrosclerosis, ischemic nephropathy, atheroembolic disease and thrombotic microangiopathy.
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