Atherosclerosis, complications of:
Chapter: 10
i) Acute occlusion, usually due to hemorrhage into a plaque, or thrombosis: this will cause infarction e.g. coronary artery and myocardial infarct. ii)Chronic narrowing of vascular lumen; causing chronic ischemia and sometimes atrophy e.g. kidney. iii) Aneurysm formation, iv) Embolism of atheromatous material (cholesterol embolism).
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