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Results 1 - 10 of 28 for Vascular Calcification
  1. Percutaneous Stabilization for Lower Back Pain Video (OR-Live)
    ... degenerative disc at the L5-S1 level and calcification of the blood vessels anteriorly. That keeps you from being able to ... the patient because if you have those calcified blood vessels, you can cause those calcifications to dislodge and cause problems with the blood ...
    www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=423 - External Health Links
  2. Calcification
    ... the body can cause problems with how these blood vessels and organs work. Calcifications can usually be seen on x-rays . See ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002321.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Genetics Home Reference: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
    ... strength and flexibility to structures throughout the body. Calcification can affect elastic fibers in the skin, eyes, and blood vessels, and less frequently in other areas such as ...
    ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=pseudoxanthomaelasticum - External Health Links
  4. Essential Guide to Brain Tumors (National Brain Tumor Society) - PDF
    ... show a combination of soft tissue, bone, and blood vessels. CT is effective at examining bone and tissue calcification and hemorrhage. CT images can determine some types ...
    www.braintumor.org/upload/contents/330/GuideFINAL2007.pdf - External Health Links
  5. Vitamin D Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
    ... vitamin D and calcium can lead to the calcification and damage to organs, particularly the kidneys and blood vessels. If magnesium levels are low, they can cause ...
    www.labtestsonline.org/.../analytes/vitamin_d/test.html - External Health Links
  6. Questions and Answers about Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
    ... of the elastic fibers with tiny areas of calcification in the skin, the back of the eyes (retinae), and the blood vessels. PXE typically causes skin abnormalities, eye abnormalities that ...
    www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Connective_Tissue/default.asp - External Health Links
  7. Sturge-Weber syndrome - soles of feet (image)
    ... ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve, with ipsilateral vascular anomalies constitute the Sturge-Weber syndrome. Glaucoma, retinal detachment, calcification of the outer layers of the cerebral cortex, ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/3181.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Ultrasound - Vascular (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)
    ... difficult to image and evaluate than larger vessels. Calcifications that occur as a result of atherosclerosis may obstruct the ultrasound beam. Sometimes ultrasound cannot differentiate between a blood vessel that is closed versus one that is nearly ...
    www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=vascularus&bhcp=1 - External Health Links
  9. PXE Frequently Asked Questions: Women's Issues (PXE International, Inc.)
    ... certain that there are no underlying cardiac or vascular problems. [March 2006] ... reports of arterial and skin calcification in mammograms of patients with PXE, and unpublished ...
    www.pxe.org/english/View.asp?x=1436 - External Health Links
  10. Surgical Management of Stones (American Urological Association)
    ... urethra. bowel: Another word for intestines or colon. calcification: Abnormal hardening or stiffening of a body part. ... entire body. glomerulus: A tiny set of looping blood vessels in the nephron where blood is filtered in ...
    www.urologyhealth.org/adult/index.cfm?cat=12&topic=132 - External Health Links
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