Open AccessThe relative importance of arterial remodeling compared with intimal hyperplasia in lumen renarrowing after balloon angioplasty. A study in the normal rabbit and the hypercholesterolemic Yucatan micropig.
Author(s) -
Mark J. Post,
C. Borst,
Richard E. Kuntz
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.89.6.2816
Subject(s) - medicine , internal elastic lamina , intimal hyperplasia , restenosis , angioplasty , balloon , lumen (anatomy) , angiography , hyperplasia , radiology , cardiology , artery , stent , smooth muscle
Although arterial renarrowing after angioplasty has been attributed largely to intimal hyperplasia, there has been no systematic effort to correlate the actual hyperplastic tissue mass with angiographic lumen reduction. Using balloon angioplasty in various animal restenosis models, we quantitatively assessed the separate contributions of intimal hyperplasia and arterial remodeling to angiographic late lumen loss.
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