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Revista Cubana de Investigaciones Biomédicas
On-line version ISSN 1561-3011
Abstract
SERRA ORTEGA, Alain; FERNANDEZ-BRITTO RODRIGUEZ, José and CAMPOS, R. Pathomorphological and morphometric association of the atherosclerotic lesion in seven different arterial sectors. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2008, vol.27, n.3-4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3011.
Four hundred and sixty necropsies of patients from "Carlos J. Finlay" Hospital performed between 1999 and 2003 were investigated. Eighteen arteries from the following seven vascular arteries were analyzed: Willis circle, considered as only one artery, the three epicardial coronaries (right, anterior descending and left circumflex) , the aorta (thoracic and abdominal); the two renal, the iliac and the phemoral. An atherometric system was used for the pathomorphological and morphometric study. The arteries were dissected, fixed and coloured. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was made for the statistical study by canonical correlation. Among the most important results there were observed very strong correlations between the adipose stria, the fibrous plaque and the severe plaque in the analyses of all among all the investigated arteries, with a few exceptions. All these results strongly suggest that atherosclerosis is a process of systemic distribution
Keywords : Systemic atherosclerosis; atherosclerotic lesion; canonical correlation; atherometric system.