Voorbeelden van atheroma

• It was long thought that a raising of blood pressure with age-partly due to atheroma-was part of the natural process of ageing in man.

• Evidence that mild renal artery stenosis due to atheroma is common has accumulated.

• As we cannot identify atheroma accurately in life, we have to rely on heart disease as a reliable marker.

• The pulmonary trunk was thin-walled and dilated, but there was no evidence of rupture, atheroma or thrombosis.

• The orifices of the coronary arteries were wide, with the main vessels dilated up to 0.6 cm in diameter and patent, with minimal atheroma and normal smaller branches.

• Although these in themselves may not be enough to provoke loss of consciousness, their effects in combination with other co-morbidities, such as intra- or extracerebral atheroma, may.

• The exact mechanism of atheroma formation in rheumatoid arthritis is unclear, but may be associated with the vasculitis observed in rheumatoid arthritis.

• On average, life expectancy is reduced in rheumatoid arthritis by about five years and atheroma is a key contributing cause.