Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Kalkspange

English translation:

circular calcified plaque / calcified plaque ring

Added to glossary by Steffen Walter
Mar 31, 2008 20:25
16 yrs ago
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German term

Kalkspange

German to English Medical Medical (general)
Hallo Prozers,

Working on a heart catheter findings report and this term comes up.

Context:

...sowie akuter Stentthrombose bei zwei ueberlappend eingegrachten 2,5er Genous-Stents in der Circumflexa.
Als Ursache koennte eine Unterexpansion im Bereich einer Kalkspange im Bereich der Ueberlappungsstelle der beiden Stents verantwortlich sein.

Vielen Dank im voraus!
t r e y
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 clacified plaque
1 calcification
Change log

Apr 8, 2008 06:58: Steffen Walter changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/139695">treychic's</a> old entry - "Kalkspange"" to ""clacified plaque""

Proposed translations

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Selected

clacified plaque

best describes the underlying etiology plus the image

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-03-31 21:29:07 GMT)
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Calcified Plaque Buildup Q: If calcified plaque buildup is found in your heart, does that mean that you have coronary artery disease, or that it is a factor that may or may not lead ...
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Heart Scan - EBT or CT Heart Scan, Non-Invasive Heart Disease ... Rather, the heart scan detects calcified plaque in the arteries of the heart. Calcified plaque is an indicator of heart disease. ...
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Relation of aggressiveness of lipid-lowering treatment to changes ... Despite the greater improvement in lipids in the </=80 versus >80 mg/dl groups, there were no differences in calcified plaque progression (9.3%/year vs ...
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Calcified Plaque Cross-Sectional Area in Human Arteries The purpose of this investigation was to quantify the amount of intralesional calcium detected by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) compared with ...
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-03-31 21:44:35 GMT)
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I forgit to add: CIRCULAR calcified plaque.
Peer comment(s):

agree John Fenz : to include "spange", maybe "calcified [plaque] ring" see Abbildung 11 in document at http://tinyurl.com/266e8r for image. Also, search "calcified ring" in Google
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calcification

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