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Zhou YF, Leon MB, Waclawiw MA, Popma JJ, Yu ZX, Finkel T,
Epstein SE
Association between prior cytomegalovirus infection and the
risk of restenosis after coronary atherectomy
New Engl J Med
(Aug) 335:624-630 1996

The abstract is available from the NLM (see below) so I won't belabor the
details of this study.
The finding that prior (but not active) CMV infection may increase the degree
of neointimal
hyperplasia in coronary arteries may have direct application to the dialysis
setting, where
neointimal hyperplasia at the venous anastomosis of grafts is a leading cause
of vascular access
thrombosis. Somebody please do this study!(jtd)
The abstract of this paper is available from the National Library of
Medicine's PubMed site:
click here .
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