Necrotic Core and Its Ratio to Dense Calcium Are Predictors of High-Risk Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 573-578

  Missel, Eduardo ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Carlier, Stephane G ^a   Sano, Koichi ^a   Qian, Jie ^a   Kaple, Ryan K ^a   Castellanos, Celia ^a   Dangas, George ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a   Moses, Jeffrey W ^a   Stone, Gregg W ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATINE KINASE MB; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; BLOOD; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; TUNICA MEDIA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCINOSIS; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 41949124062     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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