Research of multiarterial atherosclerotic disease in hypertensive patients with renal artery stenosis.

Introduction: The detection of the renal artery stenosis in hypertensive patients can be a signal of systemic arterial atherosclerosis.

Aims: To identify and characterize clinical-epidemiologically the hypertensive patients with renal artery stenosis, evaluating factors of cardiovascular risk and presence of symptomatic multiarterial atherosclerotic.

Method: Were selected the hypertensive patients who were assisted at the Nephrological Clinic of Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM) between 2000-2010, with diagnosis of renal artery stenosis of atherosclerotic etiology.