Fibromuscular Dysplasia
"Fibromuscular Dysplasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An idiopathic, segmental, nonatheromatous disease of the musculature of arterial walls, leading to STENOSIS of small and medium-sized arteries. There is true proliferation of SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS and fibrous tissue. Fibromuscular dysplasia lesions are smooth stenosis and occur most often in the renal and carotid arteries. They may also occur in other peripheral arteries of the extremity.
| Descriptor ID |
D005352
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.907.137.372
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| Concept/Terms |
Fibromuscular Dysplasia- Fibromuscular Dysplasia
- Dysplasia, Fibromuscular
- Dysplasias, Fibromuscular
- Fibromuscular Dysplasias
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fibromuscular Dysplasia" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Porras-Colon J, Scott CK, Pizano A, Driessen A, Timaran CH, Modrall JG, Tsai S, Kirkwood ML, Ramanan B. Outcomes of carotid stenting in patients with fibromuscular dysplasia. J Vasc Surg. 2023 03; 77(3):829-835.