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Chest, Vol 76, 705-707, Copyright © 1979 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Spontaneous return of patency in a completely occluded coronary artery

ND Smith and H DeMots

We observed a 56-year=old man in whom an occluded right coronary artery was observed to be widely patent on a subsequent angiogram 40 months later. This "regression," which occurred without a change in his risk factors, shows that manipulation of risk factors can be proven to be a cause of regression only in controlled studies.




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