There can be no doubt that arterial disease in the comparatively young is more frequent than it was twenty-five years ago, and that the mortality from diseases directly dependent on arteriosclerotic changes is increasing.
So only particular groups of organs, which show symptomatic changes as the result of arteriosclerotic processes, will be discussed.
This might be called the arteriosclerotic high-tension group (Stone's cardiac group).
There is no reason why the arteriosclerotic who has always used tobacco in moderation, should not continue to use it, whether he smoke cigarettes, cigars, or pipe.
These may be the result of general arteriosclerotic changes or may result from toxic changes.
Upon the anatomical structure of the arteries depends, as a rule, the character and extent of the arteriosclerotic lesions.
In these cases the coronary arteries share in the generalized arteriosclerotic process.
There is also the chronically shrunken and scarred kidney known pathologically as the arteriosclerotic kidney.
The lesions of the arteriosclerotic kidney are due to narrowing and eventual obstruction of the afferent vessels.
One might say that the appearance of albumin in the urine of an arteriosclerotic where it had not been before, is a bad sign, and in making a prognosis this must be taken into consideration.
In the smaller arteries and arterioles the arteriosclerotic process appears on superficial examination to be a different process from that in the aorta and large arteries, but the difference is only apparent.
Of interest here is the fact that besides gummata, ulcers, and other lesions of the bundle, definite arteriosclerotic changes have been found.
All pathologists are not agreed as to whether the experimental lesions produced by blood pressure raising drugs are similar to the arteriosclerotic changes in the arteries of man.
Yet we do not know but that factors other than pressure alone produce the arteriosclerotic change in such cases, so we are forced back on our conclusion expressed above; viz.
In the arteriosclerotic process which occurs at the root of the aorta, the coronary arteries become involved both at the openings and along the courses of the vessels.
This dry skin is especially frequent if there is any kidney insufficiency, which so soon and so readily becomes a part of the arteriosclerotic process.
In these arteriosclerotic patients the activities of alcohol should be considered from the drug point of view, not from that of all intoxicating beverage.
Necropsics on patients who died of this condition showed coronary sclerosis and arteriosclerotic kidneys.
Of these two, XIV probably had renal arteriosclerosis and was in any case very gravely arteriosclerotic in general and suffered from cystitis.
He adds that these are all too frequently the forerunners of arteriosclerotic brain degeneration.
These phenomena remind us of what we see in epileptic confusions, in epileptic deterioration and in arteriosclerotic dementia.
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