Intracranial artery calcification refers to the deposition of calcium–phosphate salts within the walls of arteries supplying the brain. It occurs predominantly in two layers of the vessel wall: the ...

Coronary artery calcification is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with advanced-stage NSCLC.

BAND keratopathy with hypercalcemia of whatever cause is a well established entity. 1–4 It presents as a gray, granular and superficial opacity limited to the paralimbal region on either side of the ...

Real-time observation of certain biochemical processes in blood vessels from mice has revealed a previously unknown similarity between atherosclerosis, also known as vascular calcification, and bone ...

In a new study conducted by researchers at the group Vascular Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, osteomodulin was identified as a novel biomarker for vascular calcification. The ...

People who smoke or have diabetes may be at increased risk of calcifications in a region of the brain crucial to memory, according to a new study. People who smoke or have diabetes may be at increased ...

A retrospective review of more than 24,000 patients who underwent an EKG at Mayo Clinic finds that nearly one-quarter of the patients had mitral annulus calcification, a chronic degeneration of tissue ...

Logistic regression is the most cost-effective model for medial vascular calcification classification, with a mean ICER of $278 using five low-cost features. Despite similar diagnostic accuracy, ...

A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham addressing this mechanism has been selected as one of only two feature articles in the April 2026 issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and ...

Calcification is when calcium deposits form. This may be due to age. However, there are also links to infection, injury, or cancer. Calcium is one of the most abundant minerals in the body. It is ...