Central JSM Clinical Case Reports Case Report Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy- An Atherosclerotic Masquerade Thajudeen B, William P and Bijin B* Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, USA Abstract Calcific uremic arteriolopathy is a poorly understood disease causing vascular calcification and ...
Atherosclerosis is often referred to as a “hardening” or furring of the arteries and is caused by the formation of multiple atheromatous plaques within the arteries. Atherosclerosis (also called arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD herein and in the art) is a form of arteriosclerosis in whic...
Atherosclerosis, the main underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease, is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by lipid accumulation and immune cell responses in the vascular wall, resulting in plaque formation. It is well-known that atherosclerosis prevalence and manifestation vary by sex. Howev...
One patient showed calcification. The level of homocysteine in the blood of the main-group patients dropped from 16.4 ± 2.5 µmol/L at the beginning of treatment to 15.9 ± 2.1 µmol/L at its end. This drop contributed positively to the disease dynamics. The control group patients ...
4. Discussion With aging, calcification of the vascular wall, deterioration of elasticity, endothelial cell damage, and cardiac function decline are inevitable and irreversible phenomena, leading to severe cardiovascular death events [16]. The most common one is atherosclerosis, in which excessive ...