A case study on intravascular lithotripsy for the treatment of calcified carotid disease to demonstrate technical feasibility ...

Objective Examine if two inexpensive measures of atherosclerotic vascular diseases (ASVD), abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) provide complementary ...

Aortic atherosclerosis: This occurs when plaque (made up of substances like cholesterol and calcium) collects and hardens inside the aorta blocking the ... Chronic cases, which may be symptom-free for ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysm (AA) and abdominal AA are life-threatening diseases characterized by dilation, inflammation, and structural weakness; development of pharmacological therapies is desperately ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is an indolent, potentially fatal disease, which progresses at variable rates that are influenced by pathogenesis and patient characteristics. We conducted a systematic ...

Sandeep Brar, MD, et al., examined outcomes in 6,809 participants (mean age, 62.5 years; 52.8% women) who had noncontrast cardiac CT scan for calcification of the aortic valve, aortic root, mitral ...

Risk of major cardiovascular complications such as heart disease and stroke was assessed using atherosclerotic cardiovascular ... used to evaluate the extent of coronary calcification (30). Similar to ...

Objective: Systemic hypoperfusion is intricately involved in neurohormone secretion, vascular calcification (VC) related impaired vasodilation, and luminal stenosis. We aimed to conduct a joint ...