The Thrombotic Process in Atherogenesis

First Plenary Session Conceptual Aspects.- Atherogenesis: The Process from Normal to Lesion.- The Geographic Pathology and Topography of Atherosclerosis and Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Lesions.- Light and Electron Microscopy of Human Atherosclerotic Lesions.- The Plasma Lipoproteins: Current Concepts of Metabolism and Structure with Clinical Implications.- Progression and Regression of Atherosclerotic Lesions.- Clinical and Pathological-Aspects of Arterial Thrombosis and Thromboembolism.- Platelets, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis.- Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis.- Endothelium 1977: A Review.- Atherosclerosis and Inflammation.- Discussion Following First Plenary Session.- First Workshop Session Interaction of Platelets and Coagulation with the Arterial Wall.- Summary of Workshop 1a: Endothelium.- Discussion Following Workshop 1a.- Summary of Workshop 1b: Smooth Muscle.- Discussion Following Workshop lb.- Second Plenary Session Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis.- Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis.- Relationship of Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis to Arterial Thrombosis.- Possible Effects of Risk Factors on Fibrinolysis.- Hypercholesterolemia and Platelets.- Pilot Epidemiological Studies in Thrombosis.- Discussion Following Second Plenary Session.- Second Workshop Session Lipid-Membrane Interactions of Platelets, Coagulation, and the Arterial Wall at the Molecular Level.- Summary of Workshop 2a: Lipid-Membrane Interactions of Platelets and Coagulation.- Discussion Following Workshop 2a.- Summary of Workshop 2b: Lipid-Membrane Interactions of Platelets and Coagulation with the Arterial Wall.- Discussion Following Workshop 2b.- Third Workshop Session the Thrombotic Process and Atherogenesis in Specific Arterial Injury.- Summary of Workshop 3a: Hemodynamic Injury.- Discussion Following Workshop 3a.- Summary of Workshop 3b: Immunologic Injury.- Discussion Following Workshop 3b.- Fourth Workshop Session Animal Models of Atherosclerosis Involving the Thrombotic Process.- Summary of Workshops 4a & 4b: Animal Models of Atherosclerosis Involving the Thrombotic Process.- Discussion Following Workshops 4a & 4b.- Atherothrombology.- Third Plenary Session Clinical Assessment of the Thrombotic Process in Relation to Atherosclerosis.- Platelet Function in Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis.- Platelet Survival Determination in Atherosclerosis.- Assays for Hypercoagulability.- Assay of Fibrinopeptides A and B and of Released Platelet Proteins as a Measure of Activation of Hemostasis.- Discussion Following Third Plenary Session.- Epilogue.- Appendix A Endothelium 1977: A Review (Bibliography).- Appendix B Workshop Participants.- Author Index.