Mr. Raymond's chest pain
 
Symptoms & History

Physical Findings

Stop & Think

Lab and X-Ray

Differential Diagnosis

The Disease

Treatment

Conclusions

Quiz & Evaluation

 The arterioles are the focus of arteriolosclerosis, not the larger elastic arteries. This is a condition of microscopic sized blood vessels.  It almost always results from hypertension.

There are two basic divisions of arteriolosclerosis.

  • Hyaline vascular and 

    • Hyperplastic (occasionally, necrotizing arterioloitis accompanies the hyperplastic stage) 

Monckeberg medial calcific sclerosis
Atherosclerosis

  

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