Meanings of compensatory enlargement in English

Therefore, compensatory enlargement and paradoxical constriction represent the extremes of a continuous spectrum.

Background: As a consequence of plaque accumulation, coronary arteries may undergo both compensatory enlargement and paradoxical constriction.

Objective: Early atherosclerosis is often undetected due in part to compensatory enlargement of the outer wall, termed positive remodeling.

None of the analyzed clinical and morphological variables predicted the presence of compensatory enlargement as opposed to paradoxical constriction.

Proximal coronary segments showed more prominent compensatory enlargement than distal segments, which have a similar degree of luminal narrowings.

After portal vein occlusion, collaterals develop from preexisting periportal vessels which undergo compensatory enlargement and reconstitute the intrahepatic portal vessels.

Objective: To compare vessel, lumen, and plaque volumes in atherosclerotic coronary lesions with inadequate compensatory enlargement versus lesions with adequate compensatory enlargement.

Conclusions: In lesions with inadequate compensatory enlargement, both vessel and plaque volume appear to be smaller than in lesions with adequate compensatory enlargement.

Based on the intravascular ultrasound data, lesions were classified according to whether there was inadequate (group I) or adequate (group II) compensatory enlargement.