Prediction of sites of coronary atherosclerosis progression: In vivo profiling of endothelial shear stress, lumen, and outer vessel wall characteristics to predict vascular behavior

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 458-470

  Stone, Peter H ^a,b   Coskun, Ahmet Umit ^a   Yeghiazarians, Yerem ^a   Kinlay, Scott ^a   Popma, Jeffrey J ^a   Kuntz, Richard E ^a   Feldman, Charles L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Endothelium; In stent restenosis; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEART DISEASE; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMINAR FLOW; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UPREGULATION;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1342321660     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200311000-00007     Document Type: Review

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