A young patient has developed a disease that is causing her elastic fibers to breakdown. the tunica media of which artery is most affected by this disease? a young patient has developed a disease that is causing her elastic fibers to breakdown. the tunica media of which artery is most affected by this disease? renal arteriole aorta brachial

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Margaret Newton

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15 September, 04:54

A young patient has developed a disease that is causing her elastic fibers to breakdown. the tunica media of which artery is most affected by this disease? a young patient has developed a disease that is causing her elastic fibers to breakdown. the tunica media of which artery is most affected by this disease? renal arteriole aorta brachial

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Landon Berger · Answer 1

Typically affects those under the age of 50 and die of Heart failure induced by aortic valvular incompetence. Vasa vasorum show hyperplastic that thickness of their walls that block the blood flow and causes ischemia of the outer two-thirds of the aortic wall. Starved for O2 / nutrients, elastic fibers become patchy and smooth muscle cells necrose. Media scars. If the disease progresses, syphilitic aortitis leads to an aortic aneurysm.