Increased local temperature in human coronary atherosclerotic plaques: An independent predictor of clinical outcome in patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1277-1283

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Stratos, Costas ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a   Panagiotakos, Dimosthenis ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SURVIVAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035312784     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01137-8     Document Type: Article

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