What's the difference between atheromatic and atheromatous?
Atheromatic
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Atheromatous
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma.
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(1) Post-operative levels of C3 breakdown products were significantly higher in atheromatic patients than in controls, most likely due to the insertion of dacron arterial prostheses in the first group.
(2) Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease, presented as angina pectoris, were studied over a period of five years.
(3) Studies in human postmortem atheromatous arteries and in animal models in vivo indicate that laser balloon angioplasty, by creating a lumen that approximates the size and smooth cylindrical shape of the balloon, should be effective in the treatment of important causes of restenosis.
(4) Percutaneous transluminal atherectomy (ATH) can remove the obstructing atheromatous material and may overcome the limitations of balloon angioplasty for the treatment of occlusive peripheral vascular disease.
(5) A study of hearts removed during medicolegal autopsy of drug addicts after their sudden death demonstrated the constant presence of coronary lesions very similar to common atherosclerosis but remarkable by their magnitude, especially in patients dying at an age when atheromatous disease is relatively rare.
(6) The patient died at the age of 25 years and histopathological examinations of the vessels demonstrated obstructive atheromatous lesions in the medium sized and small arteries of the brain and viscera.
(7) A similar episode of hematuria occurred a year postoperatively and another renal infarction, likely caused by atheromatous embolization, was demonstrable with tomographic and angiographic techniques.
(8) Which investigations have to be performed for diagnosing atheromatous renal failure?
(9) The clinical consequences of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) result from its metabolic peculiarities that persist from very early childhood, leading to the accumulation of cholesterol in the form of xanthomas in skin and tendons and atheromatous lesions in the arterial wall, in particular, in the aorta and the stem of coronary arteries.
(10) The operative management of large and giant aneurysms is complicated by their typically atheromatous and thick walls, frequent intramural thrombosis with calcification, and broad-based necks that often incorporate perforating and other vital vessels.
(11) Atheromatous embolism disease is a recently defined entity of still to be determined prevalence.
(12) Cultured newborn rat aortic SMC furnish an in vitro model for the study of several aspects of SMC differentiation and possibly of mechanisms leading to the establishment and prevention of atheromatous plaques.
(13) Experimental studies have demonstrated a 30-50% reduction in the development of atheromatous lesions of the aorta in rabbits fed a diet rich in cholesterol when they were treated with nifedipine.
(14) It appears that plasma exchange combined with diet and drug therapy, while not producing regression of existing atheromatous lesions, does retard or prevent further progression.
(15) In this series, the association MCA curve dampened and PTI lower than 0.90 is the evidence of a more than 90% stenosis, except in 2 atheromatous and symptomatic occlusions.
(16) The atheromatous material was for the most part in the core of the thrombus.
(17) Four cases of unilateral digital ischaemia in the upper limb secondary to embolisation from atheromatous plaques in the proximal subclavian artery are presented.
(18) The patients participated in a study aiming to demonstrate whether serum lipid lowering by drugs could influence the development of femoral artery atheromatous disease.
(19) Together the results indicate that in rabbit atheromatous cells, lysosomes are the site of accumulation of intracellular cholesterol in excess of that structurally associated with membranes and that both cytoplasmic droplets and lysosomes are depot sites for cholesteryl esters.
(20) In 9 cases, it was an air embolus, in 4 others an atheromatous embolus.