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Can Coronary Artery Calcifications Come From Atelectasis?
Question: Can etensive coronary artery calcifications come from atelectasis?
Brief Answer:
No pathophysiological correlation between them.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
Regarding your concern, I would like to explain that coronary artery calcifications and atelectasis are two entities totally different in their meanings, pathophysiological and anatomical disorders they describe.
Coronary artery calcifications are considered a marker of chronic coronary lesions (stenoses), while atelectasis means lung tissue collapse.
Being so different disorders, one localised in coronary arteries, the other appearing as a pulmonary pathology, excludes any potential logical derivation of one from the other.
If fact, it doesn't exist a pathophysiological connection between them.
So, my answer is definitely: NO!
It is not possible that coronary artery calcifications come from atelectasis!
Hope to have been helpful to you!
Feel free to ask me whenever you need. Greetings! Dr. Iliri
No pathophysiological correlation between them.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
Regarding your concern, I would like to explain that coronary artery calcifications and atelectasis are two entities totally different in their meanings, pathophysiological and anatomical disorders they describe.
Coronary artery calcifications are considered a marker of chronic coronary lesions (stenoses), while atelectasis means lung tissue collapse.
Being so different disorders, one localised in coronary arteries, the other appearing as a pulmonary pathology, excludes any potential logical derivation of one from the other.
If fact, it doesn't exist a pathophysiological connection between them.
So, my answer is definitely: NO!
It is not possible that coronary artery calcifications come from atelectasis!
Hope to have been helpful to you!
Feel free to ask me whenever you need. Greetings! Dr. Iliri
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Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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