arteriosclerosis
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS what is Arteriosclerosis?? - a genetic term used for thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial wall what are the classifications? A) arteriosclerosis - affects small arteries and arterioles a) hyaline arteriosclerosis -caused by proteins leaking into the vessel wall -produces vascular thickening -seen as pink hyaline on microscopy b)hyperplastic arteriosclerosis - characterized by concentric laminated 'onion skin' thickening of arteriolar wall B) atherosclerosis - affects large and medium sized artery - most frequent and clinically important pattern - characterized by intimal lesion called fibrous plaques or, atheromas ...