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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2013 Nov 12;6(6):701–709. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.113.000195

Table 1.

Femoral Artery Balloon Angioplasty Injury Models

Single Injury Double Injury PValue
Quantitative analysis
 Percentage luminal stenosis 5.5% (2.5–9.7) 11% (8.0–17) 0.002
 Neointimal thickness, mm 0.18 (0.08–0.32) 0.13 (0.09–0.24) 0.9
 Medial thickness, mm 0.35 (0.31–0.40) 0.51 (0.46–0.54) <0.001
 Intima/media ratio 0.08 (0.04–0.16) 0.10 (0.07–0.15) 0.5
 Adventitial microvessels 25 (10–83) 11 (9–15) 0.2
Semiquantitative analysis
 Injury 2 (0–3) 0 (0–1) 0.4
 Inflammation 1 (1–1) 1 (1–1) 0.3
 Medial fibrosis 1.5 (0–2) 0.5 (0–1.5) 0.4
 Fibrin/thrombus 0 0 1
 Hemorrhage 0 0 1
Pigs (femoral injury sites), n 2 (4) 2 (4)

All values are median (IQR). Pvalues are from mixed-effects linear models (see the online-only Data Supplement).