Fluid Flow in Addressing and Understanding Aspects of Occlusive Cardiovascular Diseases

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Hemodynamics and biorheology have been important to our understanding of cardiovascular disease and to the development of new therapeutic technologies over the latter half of the 20_th C. Several historical examples are given with contributions from Japan highlighted. The progression of and recent results for encapsulated plasminogen activators for occlusive arterial disease are reviewed.