Plaque composition and its relationship with acknowledged shear stress patterns in coronary arteries [1]

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 884-885

  Rodriguez Granillo, Gastón A ^b   García García, Héctor M ^b   Wentzel, Jolanda ^b   Valgimigli, Marco ^b   Tsuchida, Keiichi ^b   Van Der Giessen, Wim ^b   De Jaegere, Peter ^b   Regar, Evelyn ^b   De Feyter, Pim J ^b   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SHEAR STRESS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 32644437453     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.11.027     Document Type: Letter

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