Renal vascular disease: pathology of large blood vessel disease.

Lesions of the extrarenal arteries which are associated with hypertension are described. Included are descriptions of the development, stages, and complications of atherosclerotic plaques; intimal fibroplasia and the medial fibromuscular dysplasias; Takayasu's aortitis; radiation injury; and a newly described arterial disease, medial agenesis. Also described is the development of atherosclerosis in saphenous vein bypass grafts and the effects of transluminal angioplasty.