Methods: From 2003 to 2006, a random sample of 2187 elderly participants (mean age, 69.6 卤 6.8 years; 50.9% female; 11.7% COPD) from the population-based Rotterdam Study underwent computed tomography to quantify atherosclerotic coronary artery calcification (CAC), aortic arch calcification (AAC)...
Atherosclerotic calcification may be one example of this process, in which oxidized lipids are the inflammatory stimulus. Calcification is widely used as a ... Abedin,M. - 《Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol》 被引量: 1489发表: 2004年 Aortic valve calcification: determinants and progression in the po...
Aortic Arch Calcification in Ungated Lung Computed Tomography Scans as Predictors of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Methodology and Reproducibilit... Background\nAortic arch calcium (AAC), which is frequently detected on ungated lung computed tomography (CT) due to a large field of view, ...
Presence of calcification on CT was more frequently encountered in all arterial segments in subjects with ESRD, and was statistically significantly greater for the aortic arch, descending aorta, and right and left femoral arteries.SUV measurements representing the atherosclerotic inflammatory changes and ...
BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis has been implicated as a cause of valvular calcification. The aim of this study was to determine whether atherosclerotic calcif... MA Allison,P Cheung,MH Criqui,... - 《Circulation》 被引量: 294发表: 2006年 Association of mitral annulus calcification, aortic valve cal...
calcification area, sharp demarcated acellular dark pink to purple areas in the hematoxylin staining of three consecutive sections were divided by total plaque area [22]. Analysis and scoring were performed blinded. Mice with bicuspid aortic valves were excluded from histological analyses (n = 3...
Thus, coronary 18F-sodium fluoride uptake was not associated with coronary revascularization, and as a marker of active calcification that attempts to constrain the atherosclerotic plaque, this was perhaps unsurprising. We observed an association between coronary atherosclerotic plaque activity and all-...
Schurgers et al. [36] observed that plasma levels of the inactive, dephosphorylated, uncarboxylated MGP (dp-ucMGP) levels increased progressively in the setting of CKD. Moreover, they reported an independent association between higher dp-ucMGP levels and aortic calcification as well as a limited...
Furthermore, HDLs induce the interaction between osteoprotegerin and the receptor activator of nuclear factor NFκB during the process of aortic valve calcification [35]. It could be possible that by a similar process, there may be smaller HDLs participate in the calcification of the coronary ...
Atherosclerosis and plaque disruption have a central pathological role in the majority of patients who present with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but non-atherosclerotic processes are also important contributors to a substantial number of A