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The pathology and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease

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Atherosclerosis is by far the most common and clinically important condition to affect the coronary arteries, causing 127,000 deaths due to myocardial infarction in the United Kingdom each year. Consequently, the terms coronary artery disease and coronary atherosclerosis are often used synonymously although a variety of other pathological processes may affect the coronaries. This chapter will concentrate on the pathophysiology of coronary atherosclerosis with particular emphasis on the relationship between the natural history of atherosclerotic disease progression and the evolution of clinical disease. The pathophysiology of other forms of coronary disease will not be covered.

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Cox, I., Crook, R. (1996). The pathology and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease. In: Salmasi, AM., Strano, A. (eds) Angiology in Practice. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 187. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5406-2_11

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