Bar code reader – an algorithmic approach to cutaneous occluding vasculopathies? Part I: small vessel vasculopathies

Vasculopathies affecting the eye.

The retinal arteries and veins may be involved in isolation or as the result of a systemic vasculitis. This article emphasizes neurologic diseases in which the ocular vasculature is affected.

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α-Smooth Muscle Actin and ACTA2 Gene Expressions in Vasculopathies

α-smooth muscle actin, encoded by ACTA2 gene, is an isoform of the vascular smooth muscle actins, typically expressed in the vascular smooth muscle cells contributing to vascular motility and contraction. ACTA2 gene mutations cause a diversity of diffuse vasculopathies such as thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections as well as occlusive vascular diseases, including premature coronary artery d...

Cerebral vasculitides and non-arteriosclerotic vasculopathies: A Theoretical Review

Gross division of vasculitides is still today dependent upon the histological characteristics of the disease; nevertheless anatomic-pathological classifications mainly rely upon the diameter of the injured vessel and also upon the fact that the process is granulomatous, or not. Authors describe main cerebral vasculitides of primary and secondary origin, as well as some of the main non-atheroscl...

Added Value of Vessel Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Differentiation of Moyamoya Vasculopathies in a Non-Asian Cohort.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although studies have evaluated the differential imaging of moyamoya disease and atherosclerosis, none have investigated the added value of vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This study evaluates the added diagnostic value of vessel wall MRI in differentiating moyamoya disease, atherosclerotic-moyamoya syndrome (A-MMS), and vasculitic-MMS (V-MMS) with a multico...