Plaque characteristics of the coronary segment proximal to the culprit lesion in stable and unstable patients

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nakamura, Tomohiro ^a   Kubo, Norifumi ^a   Funayama, Hiroshi ^a   Sugawara, Yoshitaka ^a   Ako, Junya ^b   Momomura, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UP-REGULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 69249125424     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20471     Document Type: Article

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