[Pahwa R, et al. StatPearls. 2022;3a; Hurst’s The Heart, 14th edition;914a] Advancing atheroma. The final stage of atheroma progression is characterized by a large necrotic core and low SMC ...

Carotid atheroma imaging can offer considerable insight into the underlying pathogenesis of the disease, help us understand the natural history of atherothrombosis, and facilitate the assessment ...

The build-up forms an atheroma (degeneration of the walls of the arteries) under the endothelium (cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels).