If it occurs later in life it generally is associated with aortic narrowing, and is a part of the general endarteritis and perhaps atheroma of the aorta.
While a real atheroma generally causes a reduction in diastolic blood pressure, or at least but slight increase, he has found in syphilitic cases with arteriosclerosis a high diastolic pressure.
Arteriosclerosis frequently reaches a stage when the blood pressure is low, and with atheroma of the arteries of the arms a true blood pressure is difficult to obtain.
Investigations which have been made in recent years have led to very interesting results concerning the origin of atheroma of the arteries.
Probably diseases of the arteries of different kinds, and arising from different causes, are grouped under the terms atheroma and sclerosis.
Atheroma of the arteries is not invariable in old people, but it occurs extremely frequently.
There was a mild coronary atheroma and slight mitral valve edge thickening.
Here again, the arteries of the brain are very generally implicated; atheroma in some degree is almost always present, but is by no means necessarily followed by insanity.
Atheroma is common after middle life and increases in frequency with age.
As a rule atheroma in the cerebral vessels is but a part of a general atheroma of all the arteries of the body.
The commonest seat for atheroma of the cerebral vessels is the arteries at the base of the brain and their main branches, especially the middle cerebral.
Like the worm-aneurism itself, atheroma of the abdominal arteries arises from a circumscribed acute and subacute endo-arteritis.
The histological changes in the secondaryatheroma of horses are perfectly analogous to those of the spontaneous atheroma of man.
Thirdly, the organic changes most frequently met with have been fatty atrophy and flabby dilatation of the heart; obstructive disease of the coronary arteries by atheroma and calcification of the orifice and arch of the aorta.
Except for the remote danger of clot formation on the uneven or eroded spot, these places are of no special significance, and are not to be confused with the atheroma of nodular sclerosis.
Simple atheroma must not be confused with the lesions of arteriosclerosis.
When a limited area of the vessel wall is weakened--for example by atheroma or by other form of arteritis--this portion yields before the pressure of the blood, and a sacculated aneurysm results.
It is not applicable to cases in which there is such a degree of atheroma as would interfere with the successful ligation of the artery.
Fatty degeneration and calcification of the middle and outer coats may occur, and large, hard, calcareous plates project inward, upon which thrombi may form or may exist in connection with atheroma of the inner coat.
Atheroma is a direct result of an existing chronic endarteritis, the lining membrane of the vessels being invariably involved to a greater or less degree.
Atheroma may affect arteries in any part of the body; in some instances almost every vessel is diseased, in others only a few, or even parts of one vessel.
In a certain, but not large, number of cases atheroma with calcification or with fatty degeneration of the arteries of the stomach has been found associated with gastric ulcer.
Autopsy: atheroma of arteries, beginning cirrhosis of kidneys, walls of stomach thickened, perforated ulcer one inch below pylorus (Med.
Endocarditis and arterialatheroma (present in one-third of Berthold's cases of ulcer) form the largest proportion of these diseases.
As might be expected, valvular lesions of the heart and atheroma of the arteries are not infrequently found in elderly people who are the subjects of gastric ulcer.
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