Objective Arterial adventitial vasa vasorum (AVV) plays an important role in the occurrence
and development of atherosclerotic (AS) disease. AS is a systemic disease, and plaque is …

Objective It was previously believed that atherosclerotic (AS) plaque starts to develop from
the intima and that intraplaque vasa vasorum (VV) hyperplasia promotes adventitial VV …

This study used an atherosclerotic rabbit model to investigate the feasibility of quantifying
adventitial vasa vasorum (VV) via contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging to identify …

Background and Purpose—Histological data associate proliferation of adventitial vasa
vasorum and intraplaque neovascularization with vulnerable plaques represented by …

Proliferation of the adventitial vasa vasorum (VV) is inherently linked with early
atherosclerotic plaque development and vulnerability. Recently, direct visualization of …

Adventitial vasa vasorum are physiologic microvessels that nourish artery walls. In the
presence of cardiovascular risk factors, these microvessels proliferate abnormally. Studies …

Vasa vasorum are physiological structures providing nourishment to the vessel wall.
Interestingly, they also appear to be involved in both the early and advanced stages of the …

Background and Purpose—Adventitial vasa vasorum and plaque vascularization have been
established as predictors of unstable atheromasic lesions in cerebro-and cardiovascular …

Background Previous studies have suggested that vasa vasorum (VV) neovascularization
plays an important role in the progression and vulnerability of coronary atherosclerotic …

Aims The density of vasa vasorum within atherosclerotic plaque correlates with histologic
features of plaque vulnerability in post-mortem studies. Imaging methods to non-invasively …