[Cardiovascular risk factors in chronic renal failure]

Cardiovascular complications are the main cause of death in patients with chronic renal disease. These complications are due to two important morphological changes. Firstly, left ventricular hypertrophy together with the changes in the cardiac remodelling and myocardiac fibrosis constitute the lesion with the highest incidence in renal chronic disease. Secondly, disease in the large arteries (macrovascular disease) involve two types lesions: Artherosclerosis, which is characterised by the formation of plaques in the intima arterial membrane and artherosclerosis due to lesions in the media arterial membrane, which causes a loss in elasticity of the arterial tree.