Arteriosclerosis and Kidney

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and arteriosclerosis in a non-selected population. World Kidney Day.

358 Nefrologia 2011;31(3):358-78 We spontaneously studied a non-selected population that attended the WKD marquee in the city centre. The following measurements were taken: anthropometrics, blood pressure (Omron), glucose (Reflotron) and creatinine (Reflotron) rates, intima-media thickness (IMT) measured by ultrasound of the supra-aortic trunks (LOGIQ, 12MHz probe), taken from the posterior wal...

Arteriosclerosis: facts and fancy.

Arterial vascular diseases comprise the leading cause of death in the industrialized world. Every physician learns about the pathology of these diseases in medical school. All pathologists evaluate arterial disease in surgical pathology and/or autopsy specimens. All clinicians encounter patients with clinical manifestations of these diseases. With such a common and clinically-important group of...

Experimental Arteriosclerosis

Arteriosclerotic lesions have been produced in monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) by selective removal of the vascular endothelium with an intra-arterial balloon catheter. Immediately after de-endothelialization a platelet layer covers the denuded area. This thrombus is gradually removed and by 7 days the vessel appears to be largely reendothelialized. Beginning at day 4, smooth muscle cells undergo m...

Vitamin B6 and arteriosclerosis.

In 1949, Rinehart and Greenberg reported that marked arteriosclerosis occurs in vitamin-B6-deficient monkeys. The present study investigates the relationship between vitamin B6 and arteriosclerosis and summarizes the results. I found that thrombogenesis, disorder of collagen metabolism and production of free radicals may be the processes that cause arteriosclerosis in human and experimental ani...

Spontaneous Arteriosclerosis in Rabbits