Distribution and Frequency of Thin-Capped Fibroatheromas and Ruptured Plaques in the Entire Culprit Coronary Artery in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome as Determined by Optical Coherence Tomography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 975-979

  Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Imanishi, Toshio ^a   Kitabata, Hironori ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Takarada, Shigeho ^a   Kataiwa, Hideaki ^a   Kuroi, Akio ^a   Tsujioka, Hiroto ^a   Tanimoto, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Nobuo ^a   Mizukoshi, Masato ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 54549097061     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.05.062     Document Type: Article

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