Elevated plaque temperature in non-culprit de novo atheromatous lesions of patients with acute coronary syndromes

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 301-306

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a,b   Drakopoulou, Maria ^a   Mitropoulos, John ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vaina, Sophia ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Markou, Virginia ^a   Bosinakou, Eirini ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SYNDROME; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 30344464128     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.07.069     Document Type: Article

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