Experimental study of ballon-dilatation in an establishment of restenosis model in carotid artery of rabbit

Objective To study the mechanism of restenosis for the prevention and treatment by PTA (percutaneous transcather angioplasty) through establishing an model.Methods Under median cervical incision, to eplore right rabbit carotid artery and then clip the segments of ICA at the origination and CCA near the cardiac side of bifucation, balloon catheter with guided wire were finally inserted from proximal cardiac side of the ligated ECA to perform TA after withdrawing the clipper. Histological and morphological analysis with the controll of normal left CCA were carried out during different follow up periods. Results Histopathological and morphometric analysis indicating thrombosis was the main changes in early stage and followed by VSMC from media to intima and irregular proliferation leading to obviously intimal thicking and restenosis at 15 days after PTA.Conclusions This experimental study show low mortality, high practicability and good reproducibility of the model as an ideal presentation for study the mechanism and the prevention of restenosis.