Evaluation of characteristics and degree of remodeling in coronary atherosclerotic lesions by 64-detector multislice computed tomography (MSCT)

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 436-441

  Tanaka, Muhei ^a,b   Tomiyasu, Ki ichiro ^b   Fukui, Michiaki ^a   Akabame, Satoshi ^b   Kobayashi Takenaka, Yoshiko ^b   Nakano, Koji ^b   Kadono, Mayuko ^a   Hasegawa, Goji ^a   Oda, Yohei ^a   Nakamura, Naoto ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yamashiro Public Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Hs CRP; MSCT; Remodeling; UA

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IOMEPROL; IOMERON 350; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REPAIR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URIC ACID;

EID: 62649102741     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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