Clinical significance of echo signal attenuation on intravascular ultrasound in patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 444-454

  Kimura, Shigeki ^a   Kakuta, Tsunekazu ^b   Yonetsu, Taishi ^b   Suzuki, Asami ^b   Iesaka, Yoshito ^b   Fujiwara, Hideomi ^b   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Revascularization; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77953654064     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.108.821124     Document Type: Article

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