Arteriosclerotic Aortic Disease. Atherosclerosis is a major cause of abdominal aortic aneurysm and is the most common kind of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This disease process can be seen in any blood vessel in the body and is the cause of coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). How Atherosclerosis Develops
Evaluation, education or treatment locations: The fine white line surrounds the neural foramen or doorway through which the spinal nerves leave the spinal canal to spread out into the body.
A foramen exists at each level of the spine with one on each side. At each level, a spinal nerve, a nerve coming to or from the spinal cord, passes through the foramen. Because the foramen is a relatively small area, anything impinging on that area can cause foraminal stenosis is pinch the nerves inside the foramen.While foraminal stenosis generally occurs in the setting of other degenerative disease of the spine, it can present as the primary problem in some patients.ecause the foramen is a relatively small area, anything impinging on that area can cause foraminal stenosis is pinch the nerves inside the foramen. While foraminal stenosis generally occurs in the setting of other degenerative disease of the spine, it can present as the primary problem in some patients.