Terms Related to Medial Calcific Sclerosis

• Coronary Arteriosclerosis

  Thickening and loss of elasticity of the coronary arteries, leading to progressive insufficiency of the arteries (CORONARY DISEASE).

• Fibromuscular Dysplasia

  An idiopathic, segmental, nonatheromatous disease of the musculature of arterial walls, leading to stenosis of small and medium-sized arteries. Most commonly affected are the renal ...

• Arteriosclerosis Obliteran

  Arteriosclerosis in which proliferation of the intima leads to occlusion of the lumen of the arteries.

• MPGN

  Chronic glomerulonephritis characterized histologically by proliferation of mesangial cells, increase in the mesangial matrix, and a thickening of the glomerular capillary walls. The wall thickening ...

• Arterial Media

  The middle coat of blood vessel walls, composed principally of thin, cylindrical, smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue. It accounts for the bulk of the ...

• Arteriole

  The smallest divisions of the arteries located between the muscular arteries and the capillaries.

• Venous Media

  The middle coat of blood vessel walls, composed principally of thin, cylindrical, smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue. It accounts for the bulk of the ...