This was caused by cystic adventitial degeneration. This rare disease primarily affects male patients (5:1) and is causal in 1/1200 cases of intermittent claudication. Surgical management revealed ...
With more invasive surgical trauma such as aortic aneurysm repair, bypass grafting, transplantation, and reconstructive microsurgery, it is the fibrous outer layer of adventitial cells which take on ...
Figure 1: Characterization of the cell populations in aortic allograft intima. Figure 3: Bone-marrow origin of SM-like cells in allograft intima. Blue color shows X-gal staining (β-gal activity ...