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What are all the types of arteriosclerosis?

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Dr. Mark Rasak answered

Specializes in Cardiology

System wide : Ateriosclerosis is a systemic disease. If its noted in the brain its called cerebral vascular disease, in the heart, coronary artey disease, and in the extremities peripheral vascular disease.

Answered 3/15/2013

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Types or 10 Stages?: While atherosclerosis/arteriosclerosis is a body wide, all arteries, process, pathologists have long classified it into 10 differenct stages correlating with both duration & severity of the disease state. In an advanced lesion, at autopsy, one may be able to find all 10 stages within a single section of an artery.

Answered 12/10/2013

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