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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

MIBHS

This condition, called atherosclerosis, narrows the arteries, restricting blood flow and increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Increased Risk of Aneurysms : Chronic high blood pressure can weaken the walls of your arteries, leading to bulging areas known as aneurysms.

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Ganglioside GM3 Protects Against Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Suppressing Ferroptosis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Circulation

BACKGROUND:Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a potentially life-threatening vascular condition, but approved medical therapies to prevent AAA progression and rupture are currently lacking. Circulation, Ahead of Print. Sphingolipid metabolism disorders are associated with the occurrence and development of AAA.

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Abstract 114: “Failing” DAPT? Think Again

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Repeat CTA head and neck demonstrated multifocal intracranial atherosclerosis with marked stenosis of the left V4 segment. However, marked stenosis at V2 appeared to be owed to external compression from facet arthrosis rather than atherosclerosis. He also had moderate stenosis of the right V4 segment.

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Chest Pain in a Male in his 20's; Inferior ST elevation: Inferior lead "early repol" diagnosed. Is it?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

No thromboembolism risks, not pleuritic, no radiation to the back. No cardiac risk factors, no cocaine use. A coronary aneurysm was found. Some of these MIs in young people are due to anomolies: aneurysm from a disorder known to be associated with coronary aneurysms (left out to maintain anonymity) in this case.

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1 hour of CPR, then ECMO circulation, then successful defibrillation.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient's heart had significant recovery: Echo : Estimated LVEF 32%, apical wall motion abnormality with diastolic distortion (LV aneurysm), suggestive of old MI. If there is any evidence of atherosclerosis, modifiable CAD risk factors should be treated aggressively. It was uncertain whether this represented: 1.

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Non-coronary atherosclerosis: a marker of poor prognosis in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction The presence of non-coronary atherosclerosis (NCA) in patients with coronary artery disease is associated with a poor prognosis. Among them, traditional cardiovascular risk factors and older age were more frequently present. The secondary outcome added the need for LEAD revascularization or AAA surgery.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

1,2 ASCVD causes or contributes to conditions that include coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease (inclusive of aortic aneurysm).3 alone, more than 800,000 of these people are at risk of MI and for approximately 200,000 of them, this may well be their second life-threatening cardiac event.