Diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiology)

A heart aneurysm after a heart attack

Patients with acute myocardial infarction are at risk for a number of survival-reducing complications, one of which is a post-infarction cardiac aneurysm - a bulge in the weakened muscle wall of the heart.

Carotid aneurysm

Aneurysms of the carotid artery, which together with the vertebral arteries supplies blood to the brain, are rare.

Chronic aneurysm

A long-lasting and dynamically developing localized bulge of a thinning tissue zone of the cardiac or vascular wall is a chronic aneurysm.

Right ventricular aneurysm

An extremely rare pathology, a right ventricular aneurysm, is a limited bulge of a thinning and noncontractile right ventricular wall composed of dead or scar tissue.

Fibroelastosis

The term "fibroelastosis" in medicine refers to changes in the connective tissue of the body, covering the surface of internal organs and blood vessels, due to impaired growth of elastic fibers.

Aneurysm of the ascending aortic arch

Aneurysm of the ascending aortic arch is diagnosed by pathologic local expansion and bulging of the wall of the arch-shaped part of the aorta (the main artery of the great circle of blood circulation), going upward from the left ventricle of the heart and enclosed in the cavity of the outer shell of the heart (pericardium).

Constrictive pericarditis

Prolonged or chronic inflammation of the pericardial bag - the outer connective tissue sheath surrounding the heart, accompanied by fibrous thickening and loss of elasticity of its tissues, is defined as compressive or constrictive pericarditis (from Latin constrictio - constriction, squeezing).

Atherosclerosis of the renal arteries

Atherosclerosis of renal arteries, like other visceral arterial vessels, is associated with thickening of their walls and narrowing of the lumen.

Splenic artery aneurysm.

Pathologic dilation (Greek: aneurysma) with the formation of a bulging area in the vascular wall of the splenic artery (arteria splenica), a visceral arterial vessel that carries blood to the spleen, pancreas, and part of the stomach, is defined as a splenic artery aneurysm.

Atherosclerosis of the vessels of the lower extremities

Diseases of the circulatory system are numerous and diverse, and the disease of the peripheral arteries - atherosclerosis of the lower limb vessels or atherosclerotic angiopathy of the lower limbs - is among them (code I70.2 according to ICD-10).

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