Assessment of carotid plaque echolucency in addition to plaque size increases the predictive value of carotid ultrasound for coronary events in patients with coronary artery disease and mild carotid atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 451-455

  Hirano, Mitsumasa ^a   Nakamura, Takamitsu ^a   Kitta, Yoshinobu ^a   Sano, Keita ^a   Kodama, Yasushi ^a   Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Fujioka, Daisuke ^a   Saito, Yukio ^a   Yano, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Yosuke ^a   Kawabata, Ken ichi ^a   Obata, Jun ei ^a   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Coronary events; Intima media thickness; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ULTRASOUND; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955254985     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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