Attenuated Plaque Detected by Intravascular Ultrasound. Clinical, Angiographic, and Morphologic Features and Post-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Complications in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-72

  Lee, Sung Yun ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^b   Kim, Seok Yeon ^a   Hong, Young Joon ^a   Kim, Sang Wook ^a   Okabe, Teruo ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Suddath, William O ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a   Weissman, Neil J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; calcium; imaging

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ATTENUATED PLAQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY;

EID: 58249106872     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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