Successful intensive lipid-lowering therapy using atorvastatin stabilizes coronary artery plaque as assessed by multi-detector row computed tomography

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 859-863

  Mitsutake, Ryoko ^a   Miura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Okamura, Keisuke ^a   Niimura, Hideya ^a   Kawamura, Akira ^a   Saku, Keijiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery plaque; Intensive lipid lowering therapy; Multi detector row computed tomography; Statin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TICLOPIDINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY RISK; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX PAIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PYRROLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547882730     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6434     Document Type: Article

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