found: Work cat.: Huynh, T.N. Effects of venous needle flow during hemodialysis on endothelial morphology and nitric oxide formation, 2006:abstr. (Arteriovenous grafts used for hemodialysis frequently develop intimal hyperplasia ... )
found: Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary, 2000:p. 856 (intimal h[yperplasia] -- thickening of the intima of a blood vessel as a complication of a reconstruction procedure or endarterectomy)
found: International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, July 15, 2003:p. 1180 (Intimal hyperplasia is a chronic structural change occurring in traumatized vessels and may be defined as abnormal cell proliferation with associated deposition of extracellular connective tissue matrix)
found: Wikipedia, via WWW, Dec. 27, 2006(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)
notfound: MESH (Online), Dec. 27, 2006;Black's medical dictionary, 2004;Melloni's illustrated medical dictionary, 2002;Blakiston's Gould medical dictionary, 1979;Stedman, T.L. Stedman's medical dictionary, 2000
