in their study, where 2 and 3 SD below the mean were classified as calcifications in the aorto- iliac and femoral arteries, respectively [22]. Due to the poor image quality of some scans in this study (often due
VC in small or medium-sized arteries is described as Monckeberg's sclerosis, discovered by Johann Georg Monckeberg in 1903 [5], and characterizes progressive stiffening of the elastic layer in the arterial wall. The traditional theory to activate calcification says that high phosphate levels ...