title: [The vascular aging process: the potentials of intravascular echography].
abstract: Intravascular ultrasonography is a new diagnostic technique, based on the utilization of very small ultrasonic transducers, with high emission frequency (20-30 MHz) that can be introduced in cardiac cavities as well as in arterial vessels. Because of its technological characteristics this technique has a great potential for the evaluation of the morphological and functional alterations usually involving the arterial wall as a consequence of ageing. Intimal thickening, medial intimalization, reduced systolic-diastolic excursion of the vessel walls affected by ageing as well as by arterial diseases can be easily identified.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare, Università degli Studi, Bari.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iliceto
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carella
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rizzon
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology; D004547:Elastic Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Il processo di invecchiamento vascolare: potenzialità dell'ecografia intravascolare.