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High grade stenoses may cause critical flow and mechanical conditions such as negative pressure, flow separation,high shear stress and wall compression in arteries which may be related to platelet aggregation, thrombus formation, atherosclerosis growth and plaque cap rupture which leads directly to stroke and heart attack. The exact mechanism of these events and the conditions causing them are not well understood. Blood flow is highly pulsatile.