AtherosclerosisAtherosclerosisAtherosclerosis is a common form of arterial disease in which lipid deposition forms a plaque in the blood vessel walls. Atherosclerosis is an incurable disease, for which there are clearly defined risk factors that often can be reduced through a change in lifestyle and ...
Various pathological causes have been considered as leading to an increase in interarm BP differences such as atherosclerosis, vasculitis, fibromuscular hyperplasia, connective tissue, and thoracic outlet compression. Interarm blood pressure difference: Magnitude and prevalence in healthy adults Injuries to ...
Our aim was to confirm the poor prognosis related to thoracic aortic plaques, in particular aortic debris, diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and to evaluate patients' prognosis as a function of the antithrombotic treatment.#Aortic atheroma (AA) has been widely studied. However, it...
Atherosclerosis of the Thoracic Aorta and Aortic Debris Are Markers of Long-Term Neurologic Events and Poor PrognosisAlthough intensively discussed and finally accepted in the last years "white coat phenomenon" (WCF) still raises the question of the benefit of diagnosing it in pediatric p...
Pathogenesis/Histopathology Similar to abdominal aortic aneurysms , the majority of thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs) are caused by atherosclerosis. Aneurysmal dilation may involve only a portion of the thoracic aorta or the entire aorta may be aneurysmal. TAAs can be classified by site, morphology, ...
Further describing thoracic aneurysms by cause is important to understanding each patient’s individual disease process, as well as clinical management. Aneurysms can be degenerative and related to chronicatherosclerosisand elastic breakdown or related to chronic dissection, infections, inflammation, orconnect...
Studies have linked thoracic aortic calcification to an increased risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular morality. There is minimal evidence evaluating the sex differences in the prevalence of thoracic aortic calcification (TAC) in relation to zero coronary artery calcium (CAC). Methods This st...
The study demonstrated that age > 74 years was an independent risk factors for postoperative AEs, potentially due to the higher occurrence of severe aortic atherosclerosis in the elderly patients. This phenomenon leads to a decreased aortic elasticity and increased brittleness, thereby increasing th...
Hereditary atherosclerosis 57 (17.2) Abdominal aorta Infrarenal aortic mean diameter – mm 52.9 ± 9.2 Data are presented as n (%) or mean ± standard deviation. BMI = body mass index; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; AAA = abdominal aortic aneurysm; TAA = thoracic aortic aneury...
More recently, CT has been used for pre-procedural planning and has facilitated a more standard definition by delineating the location and circumferential extent of atherosclerosis (Figure 9) (57). Clinical trials in aortic stenosis (AS) have also been instrumental in this standardization. According...