The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress from small fatty ...
DALLAS – June 18, 2013 – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of aortic atherosclerosis can predict the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in otherwise healthy individuals, researchers ...
Many physicians have come to believe that aortic valve sclerosis and subsequent aortic valve stenosis are due to the atherosclerotic process. Pohle and colleagues [1] recently made some observations ...
We identified 36 patients with a diagnosis of PAU involving the descending thoracic aorta. The diagnosis was made with CT in 27 patients (75%), MRI in 7 (19%), and aortography in 2 (6%). As shown in ...
Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-called “vulnerable” atherosclerotic plaques are those that are likely to result in clinical ...
More than two decades’ worth of data from a large Japanese registry are shedding light on the factors that up the odds a person will die from aortic disease—most salient are heavy smoking, higher ...
A high burden of preoperative cerebral artery atherosclerosis is associated with the occurrence of stroke following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to an analysis published in the ...
(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress from ...