Abstract
Even though coronary, cerebral, and peripheral arterial disease represents the most common features of atherosclerosis, it progresses in the absence of any symptoms for most of its developmental course. Generally, the severity of a coronary stenosis is of poor predictive value for cardiac events such as sudden death, myocardial infarction, or unstable angina. For this reason, attention is increasingly being focused on the biology of the atheroma rather than on the severity of the stenosis.
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Piro, M., di Michele, S., Fioranelli, M. (2009). The Atherosclerotic Plaque. In: CT Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1126-7_6
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