Review Article

Segmental Arterial Mediolysis: A Multiguised Vasospastic Arteriopathy with Collateral Mesangial Cell Hyperplasia and Cardiac Toxicity Generated by Norepinephrine and Hyperdense Adrenoceptors Alone or by Crosstalk with Other Pressor Agents

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Segmental arterial mediolysis reparative phase. The black arrow points to a gap aneurysm containing a recent thrombus, and the blue arrow to a dissection beginning at the interface of the gap and the arterial wall and developing between the outer media and the fibrin-coated adventitia. Movat stain ×50 (adapted with permission from Modern Pathology 18(3), copyright 1995, Nature Publishing Group).