It is thought that multi-factors may relate to the occurence and exaggeration of arterial sclerosis in diabetes mellitus. We pointed out the calcification of peripheral arteries in the legs on X-ray photographs as a sign of arteriosclerosis, and studied its prevalence in diabetics and nondiabetics...
A 53-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH DIABETES MELLITUS AND END-STAGE RENAL disease who was undergoing hemodialysis presented with fever, painful fin-ger necrosis, and nonhealing ulceration of the legs. Hand radiographs showed no evidence of osteomyelitis but did show severely calcified arteries and the loss ...
been reported that the presence of vascular calcifications in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients was associated with increased stiffness of large, capacitive, elastic-type arteries like the aorta and common carotid artery (CCA). 4 Because CCA incremental elastic modulus (Einc) and aortic puls...
Potential applications for the device include applying vibratory energy to heart implants, left ventricle assist devices (which are place closer to the heart), in place heart valves, coronary arteries and coronary stents within coronary arteries that wrap around the heart, in the legs (see, e.g...
A 59-year-old man presented with paresthesia and weakness in both legs. Plain radiography of the abdomen showed marked calcification of the wall of the abdominal aorta (Panels A and B, upper arrows) and the common iliac arteries (Panels A and B, lower arrows). These findings were ...
Calcium burden can be detected in patients using standard imaging methods. However, quantitative evaluation of calcium burden in specific arteries of the leg in PAD patients is uncommon in the clinical setting, and the association between quantified levels of vessel-specific calcium burden and ...
Only three of the patients had symptoms and signs of peripheral vascular insufficiency in the legs. Peak muscular flow after maximal work during ischaemia was reduced in the diabetic patients and decreased with increasing duration of diabetes. Medial calcification of the arteries was common, and it ...
The CS was ascertained and expressed as ALCS in each segment of both legs [24]. The ALCS of each segment was normalized to its length (arbitrary units). Arteries with CS = 0HU were regarded as non-calcified. 2.6. Statistical Analysis Continuous variables were expressed as mean ± SD/...
In the 19th century, VC was regarded as the presence of bone tissue within atherosclerotic arteries [23]. However, in the late 20th century, VC was found to involve chondrocytes and osteoblast-like cells, which form from the de-differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Although ...