COVID-19 accelerates the progression of atherosclerotic plaques, increasing coronary inflammation and the risk of high-risk ...

One working theory proposes the following stages: Atheroma/fibro-atheroma ... ASCVD affect the thoracic or abdominal aorta, the renal arteries or the mesenteric arteries. [Libby P, et al.

The primary end point, percentage change in coronary atheroma volume ... arteriography at baseline and 18 months. The target artery could not have had an intervention and a luminal narrowing ...

Fluorescence microscopy image of Evans blue profile in the same atheroma section. In this animal, Evans Blue was injected along with ICG. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 25 ...

a SCAD is a tear in the heart's artery wall. "It's actually bleeding inside the artery wall, sort of like a bruise inside the artery, and that bruise can get so big that it blocks blood flow.

excess LDL carried cholesterol is deposited inside the arteries, lining the endothelium causes an atheroma to be formed ...

The build-up forms an atheroma (degeneration of the walls of the arteries) under the endothelium (cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels).