Intravascular Ultrasound Assessment of Ulcerated Ruptured Plaques: A Comparison of Culprit and Nonculprit Lesions of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes and Lesions in Patients Without Acute Coronary Syndromes

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2473-2478

  Fujii, Kenichi ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshio ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Takebayashi, Hideo ^a   Dangas, George ^a   Moussa, Issam ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a   Lansky, Alexandra J ^a   Kreps, Edward ^a   Collins, Michael ^a   Colombo, Antonio ^a   Stone, Gregg W ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a   Moses, Jeffrey W ^a,b  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS; ULCERATED RUPTURED PLAQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0345256495     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000097121.95451.39     Document Type: Article

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