Intimal hyperplasia 2806151 124055325 2007-04-19T11:01:48Z SmackBot 433328 Date/fix the maintenance tags {{Orphan|date=October 2006}} '''Intimal hyperplasia''' is the thickening of the [[Tunica intima]] of a blood vessel as a complication of a reconstruction procedure or endarterectomy. Intimal hyperplasia is the universal response of a vessel to injury and is an important reason of late bypass graft failure, particularly in vein and synthetic vascular grafts. ==See also== * [[Hyperplasia]] * [[Medical grafting]] ==External links== *[http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/medicine/2002/g.j.toes/ ''"Intimal hyperplasia, the obstacle in bypass grafts''"] [[Category:Diseases]] {{disease-stub}}