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.

• The underlying cause was given as coronary thrombosis due to coronary atheroma.

• Peripheral gangrene may result from atheroma in peripheral blood vessels, and sometimes from vasculitis itself.

• By contrast there are non-traveling blockages that develop locally from vascular trauma or epithelial pathology and vascular inflammation like atheroma, thrombi.

• The result is the formation of a thrombus (blood clot) overlying the atheroma, which obstructs blood flow acutely.

• Generally an atheroma becomes vulnerable if it grows more rapidly and has a thin cover separating it from the bloodstream inside the arterial lumen.

• Presence or absence of atherosclerosis or atheroma within the walls of the arteries can not be clearly determined.

• Higher pressures increase heart workload and progression of unhealthy tissue growth (atheroma) that develops within the walls of arteries.