New insights towards catheter-based identification of vulnerable plaque;Nuevas tendencias en la evaluación de la placa vulnerable mediante técnicas de cateterismo

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1197-1206

  Rodríguez Granillo, Gastón A ^a   Regar, Evelyn ^a   Schaar, Johannes A ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Intravascular techniques; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETER; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 28344448472     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13079914     Document Type: Review

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