Coronary atherosclerosis: is the process focal or diffuse among patients with symptomatic or fatal myocardial ischemia?

Coronary atherosclerosis among patients with symptomatic or fatal myocardial ischemia is a diffuse and extensive process, and it affects all 4 of the major (right, left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex) epicardial arteries. Histologic e