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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-4-6
pubmed:abstractText
Clinicians have traditionally regarded the complications of atherosclerosis as a consequence of progressive arterial stenosis leading to critical narrowings that impede blood flow. Our contemporary understanding of the thrombotic complications of atherosclerosis has undergone a transformation based on a body of observations by pathologists and clinicians. In the late 1980s, clinicians had to confront the counterintuitive notion that plaques that cause acute myocardial infarction often do not produce high-grade stenoses (Smith, S. C., Jr. 1996. Risk-reduction therapy: the challenge to change. Circulation. 93: 2205-2211.). Observations from serial angiographic studies and on culprit lesions of acute myocardial infarction postthrombolysis highlighted this apparent paradox. These contrarian clinical findings prompted cardiologists to consider more carefully the findings of generations of pathologists that plaques that cause fatal coronary thrombi often result from a physical disruption of the atheromatous plaque that may not indeed cause critical arterial narrowing. This convergence of clinical and pathological observations highlighted the importance of understanding the mechanisms of disruption of plaques that can precipitate thromboses.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-2275
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
50 Suppl
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S352-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of the thrombotic complications of atherosclerosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. plibby@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article