Our senile case with total crescentic massive atheromatous calcification in thoracic aorta

U Yetkin,I Yurekli,A Gurbuz

doi:10.1186/1749-8090-8-s1-p50

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Method Our case was an 89-year-old female. She was under our outpatient follow-up due to hypertension, senile diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia. Her electrocardiogram revealed no pathological finding. She had diabetes for 10 years which was regulated with oral antidiabetics with a fasting serum glucose level of 141 mg/dl. Her total serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels were 192 and 333 mg/dl, respectively. Her renal function tests were consistent with her age. Her hematocrit level was 31.7%.

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Thoracic aortic segments are the most commonly involved localizations of intimal vascular calcifications that are usually assumed to be due to atherosclerosis
Our case was an 89-year-old female. She was under our outpatient follow-up due to hypertension, senile diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia
Her electrocardiogram revealed no pathological finding. She had diabetes for 10 years which was regulated with oral antidiabetics with a fasting serum glucose level of 141 mg/dl

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Thoracic aortic segments are the most commonly involved localizations of intimal vascular calcifications that are usually assumed to be due to atherosclerosis. Our senile case with total crescentic massive atheromatous calcification in thoracic aorta From 23rd World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons Split, Croatia. Background Thoracic aortic segments are the most commonly involved localizations of intimal vascular calcifications that are usually assumed to be due to atherosclerosis. Etiological factors include chronic renal insufficiency, diabetes, hypertension and atherosclerosis that all cause endothelial damage.

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