Echolucent carotid plaques as a feature in patients with acute coronary syndrome

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1629-1634

  Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Shigeyuki ^a   Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Moriyama, Naoko ^a   Takeyasu, Noriyuki ^a   Maeda, Hiroshi ^b   Ishimitsu, Toshiyuki ^b   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a   Yamaguchi, Iwao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Ibaraki Seinan Medical Center Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Carotid arteries; Coronary disease; Plaque; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 33751429180     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.1629     Document Type: Article

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