Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings. a multicentric disease
  • The smooth muscle cell. the pivot in atherosclerosis
  • Inflammation. a sign of active disease
  • Atheromas are caseous abscesses
  • Calcification: a physiologic defense
  • Adventitia
  • the ultimate defense
  • Surface erosions
  • Blind pockets and false channels
  • Thrombosis and the injurious agent
  • Chronic ulcerated plaques
  • What is the injurious agent?
  • The toxic atheroma
  • Plaque toxins and clinical coronary syndromes.