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Figure 1 | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Figure 1

From: Ultrasound imaging versus morphopathology in cardiovascular diseases. Coronary atherosclerotic plaque

Figure 1

Coronary physiologic intimal thickening. This changes starts as nodular (already visible at birth at the site of vessel bifurcation) smooth muscle cells (A) and elastic fibrils (B) hyperplasia which in the second decade is diffuse to the whole intimal surface of all extramural arterial vessels. With aging there is a progressive increase of fibrous tissue which substitutes myo-elastic tissue (C, D) with final total, anelastic, fibrosis (E, F). Arteriosclerosis distinct from atherosclerosis

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