Arterioesclerosis

INTRODUCTION: Current guidelines recommend cardiovascular risk assessment as a preventive measure for cardiovascular diseases, whose fundamental etiology is arteriosclerosis. One of the tools used to estimate risk in clinical practice are atherogenic indices (AI), ratios between lipid fractions with well-established reference ranges. Despite its widespread use, there is still limited information on its clinical utility. In recent years, some research has reinforced the role of inflammation in the etiology and chronicity of the atherosclerotic process...

INTRODUCTION: Intracranial atheromatosis is one of the most frequent causes of stroke. It is usually a slowly progressive process and normally associated with the sum of vascular risk factors. CASE REPORT: In this case we present a rapidly progressive development of intracranial atheromatosis demonstrated by serial neuroimaging techniques and sample analysis in a 72-year-old female patient with high levels of interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein, with no signs of vasculitis...

OBJECTIVE: Calcification and atherosclerosis of the iliac arteries is very common in dialysis patients, making sometimes impossible the anastomosis of a kidney graft. The objective of this study is to present our kidney transplantation series using vascular prostheses for iliacartery reconstruction and to assess the results obtained in comparison to other published series. MATERIAL AND METHOD: In a single centre where 1090 kidney transplants were performed between January 2013 and December 2019, patients who required vascular reconstruction were identified for their descriptive analysis...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, which are well recognised as chronic systemic and immune-mediated conditions that frequently involve extraintestinal manifestations. Although comorbidities have long been the subject of research in other chronic inflammatory diseases, this concept is also emerging in IBD. Many pathologies have been linked to IBD, including cardiovascular disease, which is the main cause of death in developed countries. IBD patients are at increased risk of conditions such as early atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction or venous thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism...

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