Atheromatous coronary artery disease progresses by atheroma accretion, plaque rupture and thrombus formation, with or without spontaneous fibrinolysis [1-3]. The natural history may be altered by modifying risk factors in an attempt to induce regression [4], or treated by mechanical means such as balloon angioplasty, directional coronary atherectomy or drills, or flow modulated by the insertion of an aorto coronary bypass graft with or without endarterectomy [5, 6]. Here we discuss the natural history of the atheromatous disease in a series of 355 patients who underwent at least one PTCA procedure and then underwent a second angiographic study to determine the changes in the dilated and nondilated arteries.
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Rozenman, Y., Lotan, C., Gilon, D., Mosseri, M., Sapoznikov, D., Weiber, S., … Kajiya, F. (1993). Arterial remodelling after percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 346, pp. 277–282). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2946-0_26
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