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Increased thickness of the intimal layer of the pulmonary artery. Throughout the pulmonary arterial tree, the thin intima consists of a non-fenestrated monolayer of endothelial cells lining the vessel lumen, as well as a sub-endothelial interstitium that extends to the internal elastic lamina. Intimal thickness in human lung ranges from 1-16% of total wall thickness. Pulmonary artery intimal thickening can be defined as a relative intima thickness to the thickness of the vessel wall of over 10%. [ORCID:0000-0002-4095-8489, PMID:23606929, PMID:28025704]
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