They most commonly appear in the veins surrounding the pelvis. Phleboliths are a type of vascular calcification. They are a sign of abnormality in the vein. Phleboliths typically do not move and ...

A novel therapeutic showed significant promise in slowing aortic valve calcification, potentially extending time until or eliminating need for transcatheter or surgical intervention for stenosis, ...

Welcome to the Saint Louis University Vascular Surgery! We are one of the oldest vascular training programs in the state of Missouri, having trained vascular surgery fellows since the 1980s, and ...

These markers indicated that microplastics drive a transition from a healthy contractile state to a synthetic phenotype prone to vascular inflammation and calcification. Most notably ...

Physiological extracellular matrix (ECM) calcification or mineralization is restricted to bones, teeth and the hypertrophic zone of growth plate cartilage. In contrast, pathological ECM ...

A machine learning algorithm can assess abdominal aortic calcification level during a vertebral fracture assessment. The percentage of adults with major adverse CV events rose with higher ...

Deficient γ-carboxylation of certain proteins can lead to bone disorders and vascular calcification, which is connected to atherosclerosis and chronic kidney diseases. This makes the mechanisms ...