Relationship between a systemic inflammatory marker, plaque inflammation, and plaque characteristics determined by intravascular optical coherence tomography

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1820-1827

  Raffel, O Christopher ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Gauthier, Denise DeJoseph ^a   Halpern, Elkan F ^a   Bouma, Brett E ^a   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Leukocytes; Macrophage; Optical coherence tomography; Thin cap fibroatheroma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID STORAGE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 34547643517     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.107.145987     Document Type: Article

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