Atherosclerotic plaque
Atherosclerotic Plaque Destabilization in Mice: A Comparative Study.
... with plaque disruption or ...of atherosclerotic disease) preceding plaque rupture, such as NC formation, lesional cell-death or fibrotic tissue degrada- tion are still detected in these mouse ...
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Bacteria and bacterial DNA in atherosclerotic plaque and aneurysmal wall biopsies from patients with and without periodontitis
... were diagnosed with CP (n 30, mean age 66.9, stan- dard deviation (SD) 7.9, range: 51.385.0, male 25/30 (83%)). The second group (VD without CP) were patients undergoing treatment for VD and who were assessed without ...
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Atherosclerotic Plaque in Patients with Zero Calcium Score at Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
... In our study, only the variables alcohol consumption and absence of obesity were associated with higher risk of atherosclerotic plaque, in contrast to classical risk factors for CAD (diabetes mellitus, ...
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Identifying Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque in Rabbits Using DMSA-USPIO Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Investigate the Effect of Atorvastatin.
... Many researchers agree that the expression of MMP-9 increases in plaque shoulders, re- gions of foam cell accumulation and microvasculature. Macrophages can also secrete and syn- thesize proteases, such as ...
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Virtual histology study of atherosclerotic plaque composition in patients with stable angina and acute phase of acute coronary syndromes without ST segment elevation
... IVUS-VH plaque morphology was characterized by the analysis of mean percentage area of tissues in the MLA site, as well as the mean percentage volume of tissues in the entire ...
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Atherosclerotic plaque characterization using plaque area variation in IVUS images during compression: a computational investigation
... for atherosclerotic tissue ...of plaque, highly-lipidic, ibro-lipidic, and calciied, were computed by the two indexes, so that they could be directly ...and plaque behaviors (Cardoso et ...the ...
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Association between atherosclerotic aortic plaques and left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with cerebrovascular events
... of atherosclerotic lesions and myocardial remodeling share common pathological ...of atherosclerotic plaque of the aorta in patients seized by ...of atherosclerotic plaque in the ...
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Leucocyte count indicates carotid plaque instability in stroke patients
... Statistical analysis of biochemical parameters shows that the number of Le in the subjects of the symptomatic group is notably higher than in the subjects of the asymptomatic (p < 0.001) and the control group (p < ...
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Vitamin K-antagonists accelerate atherosclerotic calcification and induce a vulnerable plaque phenotype.
... intimal plaque vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are thought to be derived from the vascular media after having switched from a contractile into a synthetic ...for plaque presence and plaque ...
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Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity predicts cardiovascular events in high risk coronary artery disease patients.
... Lipoprotein-PLA2 activity, but not Lp-PLA2 mass, predicts cardiovascular events and acute coronary syndromes in high-risk Caucasian patients with coronary artery disease. Moreover, the prognostic information conveyed by ...
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Molecular analysis of oral bacteria in dental biofilm and plaques of patients with vascular disease
... supragingival plaque, subgingival plaque and atherosclerotic plaque were subjected to real-time PCR (Supplemental methods) for the detection of DNA from 4 different bac- terial species: ...
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Sao Paulo Med. J. vol.129 número3
... femoral neck are summarized in Table 3. Signiicant diferences in age were found between the groups (P < 0.05 for osteopenia versus nor- mal; and P < 0.01 for osteoporosis versus normal) and the T-score had a ...
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Comparação da coronariografia de mulheres diabéticas e não-diabéticas com síndrome coronariana aguda sem supradesnivelamento de ST
... acute coronary syndrome, 31% of which were diabetic. Ulcerated plaques were found in 94% of diabetic and in 60% of non-diabetic patients (p < 0.01); intracoronary thrombus was observed in 94% of diabetic and only 55% ...
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Active invasion of oral and aortic tissues by Porphyromonas gingivalis in mice causally links periodontitis and atherosclerosis.
... Atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD) is the leading cause of death in the U.S, and one third of Americans have some form of the disease, which includes coronary disease with myocardial ischemia, cerebrovascular ...
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Carotid plaque age is a feature of plaque stability inversely related to levels of plasma insulin.
... recent plaque formation time and probably say very little, if anything, about previous reformations and thus plaque ...the atherosclerotic plaque core regenerates at all ...the plaque ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.62 número3A
... because both are important and should be indi- vidually analyzed as risk factors for cerebrovascu- lar diseases. This methodological criterion might allow for the analysis of the spontaneous evolu- tion of the degree of ...
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Coronary stenting and inflammation
... The implantation and expansion of the stent determines a coronary vascular injury that is very much more severe to the lesion produced by balloon angioplasty. This follows the concept of "the bigger the better", ...
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Oral rapamycin attenuates atherosclerosis without affecting the arterial responsiveness of resistance vessels in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice
... of atherosclerotic plaque in apolipoprotein E (apoE) knockout mice fed a high-cholesterol diet ...the atherosclerotic plaque of apoE knockout mice fed a normal rodent ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.95 número6
... the atherosclerotic plaque volume assessed before stenting by an angiographic method was associated with cardiovascular events in the long ...the plaque volume may increase the diagnostic accuracy of ...
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